Publications

Many of the papers listed below until 2006 were partly supported by the The Leverhulme Trust| (Grant F/07-004m). From 2007 many of the papers were also partly supported by The Leverhulme Trust (Grant F/07 004/AJ). The papers with LSE eprint reference numbers link the papers cited to LSE Research Online, an open access repository of publications by LSE researchers. Find out more about the archive and LSE Research Online|

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2008

• Groups Can Make a Difference: Voting Power Measures Generalized
  by Claus Beisbart
   
• Degrees of Causation
  by Matthew Braham and Martin van Hees
   
• A Note on Measuring Voters' Responsibility
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
   
• Maintaining OPOV: Some Problems Associated with the Periodic Need to Re-draw Parliamentary Boundaries in the UK and US
  by Dan S Felsenthal
   

2007

• Discussion Topic: Voting Power When Voters' Independence Is Not Assumed.
  by Moshé Machover
  LSE eprint 2966
   
• Penrose's Square-root Rule and the EU Council of Ministers: Significance of
  the Quota
  by Moshé Machover
  Published in Distribution of Power and Voting Procedures in the EU, 12-13 October 2007,
  European Centre Natolin, Warsaw, Poland.
  LSE eprint 2857

• The QM Rule in the Nice and EU Reform Treaties: Future Projections
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  LSE eprint 2793
   
• Analysis of QM Rule Adopted by the Council of the European Union, Brussels, 23 June 2007
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  LSE eprint 2531
   
• Extended Shapley-Owen Indices and Power Distribution in the III State Duma of the Russian Federation
  by Fuad Aleskerov and Olga Otchour
   
• Homogeneity, Heterogeneity and Direct Democracy: The Case of Swiss Referenda
  by Abraham Diskin, André Eschet-Schwartz and Dan S Felsenthal
  Published in Canadian Journal of Political Science  40:2 (June 2007), pp. 317-342.
   
• Individual Rationality and Bargaining
  by Abraham Diskin and Dan S Felsenthal
  Published in Public Choice 133: 1-2 (October 2007), pp. 25-29.
   
• Non-Voting and the Decisiveness of Electoral Outcomes
  by Paul R Abramson, Abraham Diskin and Dan S Felsenthal
  Published in Political Research Quarterly 60:3 (September 2007) pp. 500-515.
   
• A Behavioural Power Index
  by Serguei Kaniovski and Dennis Leech

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2006

• Coalition Formation Theories Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Aumann's Hypothesis.
  by Vincent C H Chua and Dan S Felsenthal
  Published in Matthew Braham and Frank Steffen (eds.), Power, Freedom, and
  Voting: Essays in Honour of Manfred J. Holler. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2008,
  pp. 159-183.
  LSE eprint 767
   
• Further Reflections on the Expediency and Stability of Alliances
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  Published in Matthew Braham and Frank Steffen (eds.), Power, Freedom, and Voting:
  Essays in Honour of Manfred J. Holler. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 39-55.
  LSE eprint 2566
   

2005

• L S Penrose's Limit Theorem: Tests by Simulation
  by Pao-Li and Chua Chang, CH Vincent and Moshé Machover
  Published in Mathematical Social Sciences, 51 (1). pp. 90-106. ISSN 0165-4896.
  LSE eprint 535
   
• An Interview with Michael Dummett: From Analytical Philosophy to Voting Analysis and Beyond
  by Rudolf Fara and Maurice Salles
  Published in Social Choice and Welfare.
  LSE eprint 552
   
• Voting Power Measurement: A Story of Misreinvention
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  Published in Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 25(2-3) December 2005
  (Volume Title: The History of Social Choice), pp 485-506.
  LSE eprint 550

• Voting Power and Voting Blocs
  by Dennis Leech and Robert Leech
  Published in Public Choice.
  LSE eprint 616

• Voting Power Implications of a Unified European Representation at the IMF
  by Dennis Leech and Robert Leech
  LSE eprint 565

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2004

• A New Approach to Rights in Social Choice Theory which Incorporates Utilitarianism
  by Richard Barrett, Anne Petron-Brunel and Maurice Salles

• Social Choice with Fuzzy Preferences
  by Richard Barrett and Maurice Salles

• Analysis of QM rules in the draft constitution for Europe proposed by the European Convention, 2003
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  Published in Social Choice and Welfare, 23 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1432-217X
  LSE eprint 429

• Analysis of QM rule adopted by the EU Inter-Governmental Conference Brussels, 18 June 2004
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  LSE eprint 431

• A Priori Voting Power: What Is It All About?
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  Published in Political Studies Review, 2 (1). pp. 1-23. ISSN 1478-9299
  LSE eprint 423

• The Nice Treaty and Voting Rules in the Council: A Reply to Moberg (2002)
  by Madeleine O Hosli and Moshé Machover
  Published in Journal of Common Market Studies, 42 (3). pp. 497-521. ISSN 1468-5965
  LSE eprint 430

• L.S. Penrose's Limit Theorem: Proof of Some Special Cases
  by Ines Lindner and Moshé Machover
  Published in Mathematical Social Sciences, 47 (1). pp. 37-49. ISSN 0165-4896
  LSE eprint 424

• Duverger's Law, Penrose's Power Index and the Unity of the United Kingdom
  by Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan and Dennis Leech

• La Théorie du Choix Social: Une Introduction à Quelques Résultats Fondamentaux
  by Maurice Salles 

• Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting
  by Maurice Salles 

• The Launching of Social Choice and Welfare and the Creation of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
  by Maurice Salles
  LSE eprint 560

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2003

• The Voting Power Approach: Response to a Philosophical Reproach
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover 
  An edited version of this report was published in European Union Politics 4:(4) (December 2003), pp. 473-479, 493-497. ISSN 1741-2757
  LSE eprint 422

• Computing Power Indices for Large Voting Games
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Management Science Vol. 49, No.6, June 2003, pp. 831-837

• The Utility of the Voting Power Approach
  by Dennis Leech 
  Published in Warwick Economic Research Papers Number 678
  LSE eprints 559

• Voting Power in the Bretton Woods Institutions
  by Dennis Leech and Robert Leech
  LSE eprint 558

• Qualified Majority Voting: The effect of the Quotaby Dennis Leech and Moshé Machover
  Published in Manfred J Holler, H Kliemt, D Schmidtchen and M E Streit, (eds.) Power and Fairness (Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie Vol 22); Mohr Siebeck, pp. 127-143
  LSE eprint 435

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2002

• Annexations and Alliances: When Are Blocs Advantageous A Priori?
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  Published in Social Choice and Welfare, 19 (2). pp. 295-312. ISSN 1432-217X
  LSE eprint 421

• An Empirical Comparison of the Performance of Classical Power Indices
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Political Studies: 2002 Vol 50, pp. 1-22

• Computation of Power Indices (PDF)
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Warwick Economic Research Papers Number 644
  LSE eprint 557

• Designing the Voting System for the Council of the European Union
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Public Choice 113: 437-464, 2002.

• Power Indices as an Aid to Institutional Design: The Generalised Apportionment Problem
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Warwick Economic Research Papers Number 648
  LSE eprint 556

• Shareholder Voting Power and Ownership Control of Companiesby Dennis Leech
  Published in Homo Oeconomicus.

• The Use of Coleman's Power Indices to Inform the Choice of Voting Rule with Reference to the IMF Governing Body and the EU Council of Ministers
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Warwick Economic Research Papers Number 645
  LSE eprint 554

• Voting Power in the Governance of the International Monetary Fund
  by Dennis Leech
  Published in Annals of Operations Research 109, 375-397, 2002

• Comment on Braham and Steffen
  by Moshé Machover
  Published in M J Holler, H Kliemt, D Schmidtchen and M E Streit, (eds.) Power and Fairness (Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie Vol 20) (2002); Mohr Siebeck, pp. 349-353
  LSE eprint 433

• Comment on Schmidtchen and Steunenberg
  by Moshé Machover
  Published in M J Holler, H Kliemt, D Schmidtchen and M E Streit, (eds.) Power and Fairness (Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie Vol 20) (2002); Mohr Siebeck, pp. 225-227
  LSE eprint 434

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2001

• Myths and Meanings of Voting Power : Comments on a Symposium
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover 
  Published in Journal of Theoretical Politics, 13 (1). pp. 81-97. ISSN 1460-3667
  LSE eprint 419

• The Treaty of Nice and Qualified Majority Voting
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  Published in Social Choice and Welfare, 18 (3). pp. 431-464. ISSN 1432-217X
  LSE eprint 420

• Shareholder Voting Power and Corporate Governance: A Study of Large British Companies
  by Dennis Leech 
  Published in Nordic Journal of Political Economy, vol. 27(1), 2001, pp. 33-54
   

2000

• Enlargement of the EU and Weighted Voting in the Council of Ministers
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  LSE eprint 407

• Notions of a Priori Voting Power: Critique of Holler and Widgrén
  by Moshé Machover
  Published in in Homo Oeconomicus, XVI(4):415-25
   
• Voting Power and Parliamentary Defections: The 1953-54 French National Assembly Revisited
  by Dan S Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
  LSE eprint 594