Collective decision making occurs within constraints associated with the option to maintain the status quo. If this default option is sufficiently attractive to participants and the rules imply that blocking coalitions can form, then these constraints delimit the decision problem's core...

This essay considers a general class of collective decision problems that may be represented as simple collective decision games. This analysis departs from the emphasis of the earlier literature on simple cooperative games by giving special attention to situations in which blocking coalitions...

This paper discusses a theory of bargaining processes in three-person coalition games and investigates the relation between these processes and the outcome of bargaining. The bargaining theory uses an information-processing approach to model each of the three player's cognitive processes and...