Voting and Collective Decision-Making

A study of the theory of bargaining and voting power and how it applies to real decision-making contexts.

Auteur

Annick Laruelle is Associated Professor at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie. Federico Valenciano is Professor of Mathematics and Game Theory at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.

Résumé
Every day thousands of decisions are made by all kinds of committees, parliaments, councils and boards by a 'yes-no' voting process. Annick Laruelle and Frederico Valenciano present a study of the theory of bargaining and voting power and how it applies to real decision-making contexts.

Contenu
List of figures; Preface; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Seminal papers, seminal ambiguities; 3. Take-it-or-leave-it committees; 4. Bargaining committees; 5. Application to the European Union; Index.