TY - BOOK ID - 218268 TI - Power, freedom, and voting : essays in honour of Manfred J. Holler AU - Braham, Matthew AU - Steffen, Frank AU - Holler, Manfred J. PY - 2008 SN - 1281241857 9786611241858 3540733825 3540733817 364209242X 9783540733812 PB - New York: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Voting. KW - Voting KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Economic aspects. KW - Empowerment (Social sciences) KW - Political power KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Polls KW - Elections KW - Politics, Practical KW - Social choice KW - Suffrage KW - Economics. KW - Economic theory. KW - Political science. KW - Economics, general. KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. KW - Political Science. KW - Political Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of the Social Sciences. KW - Philosophy. KW - Social philosophy KW - Social theory KW - Political philosophy KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - State, The KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Economic man KW - Management science. KW - Political philosophy. KW - Philosophy and social sciences. KW - Social sciences and philosophy KW - Quantitative business analysis KW - Management KW - Problem solving KW - Operations research KW - Statistical decision KW - Holler, Manfred Joseph, - 1946 KW - -Economics. KW - -Voting. KW - -Holler, Manfred Joseph, - 1946- UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:218268 AB - Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, mathematicians, philosophers and political scientists on three intimately related concepts that are at the heart of theories of democracy and social welfare. The editors have brought together some of the leading scholars in the different fields to create a distinctive volume. Chapters include contributions on foundational and methodological issues in the definition and measurement of power and freedom and empirical studies of power and coalition formation in voting bodies. The volume also contains contributions that make an effort to bridge the gaps between different disciplinary approaches, including one on the importance of Machiavelli’s writing as a reference point for modern political theory, and others on the related concepts of fairness and responsibility. A majority of the chapters make use of game theory. ER -