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Strategic Power Revisited

Traditional power indices ignore preferences and strategic interaction. Equilibrium analysis of particular non-cooperative decision procedures is unsuitable for normative analysis and assumes typically unavailable information. These points drive a lingering debate about the right approach to power analysis. A unified framework that works both sides of the street is developed here. It rests on a notion of a posteriori power which formalizes players' marginal impact to outcomes in cooperative and non-cooperative games, for strategic interaction and purely random behaviour. Taking expectations with respect to preferences, actions, and procedures then defines a meaningful a priori measure. Established indices turn out to be special cases.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 736

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
power indices
spatial voting
equilibrium analysis
decision procedures

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Napel, Stefan
Widgrén, Mika
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2002

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Napel, Stefan
  • Widgrén, Mika
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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