We study the Shapley value in weighted voting games. The Shapley value has been used as an index for measuring the power of individual agents in decision-making bodies and political organizations, where decisions are made by a majority vote process. We characterize the impact of changing the quota (i.e., the minimum number of seats in the parliament that are required to form a coalition) on the...

This article examines the use of the Internet by a range of political actors in the 2004 European Parliament election in Britain—candidates, citizens, parties, government, pressure groups, and the media. Specifically, it surveys the structure of online political communications and the amount and nature of electoral information and engagement opportunities available to citizens in the framework ...

Taiwan is at the top of the list among Asian countries when it comes to the number of female legislators in national parliament. However, whether the increasing level of female politicians has an effect on policy outcomes is unclear. This is because female politicians’ work on women’s issues is often restricted by party discipline with the flourishing development of political parties and the po...

The performance of the Danish economy in the 1990s has been successful to the extent that scholars are talking about a “Danish miracle”. The importance of government policies to Denmark’s economic success is taken as a point of departure in investigating why Danish governments have been able to govern the economy successfully in the 1990s. The paper argues that two factors have been important. ...

We present an alternative voting system that aims at bridging the gap between proportional representative systems and majoritarian, single winner election systems. The system lets people vote for multiple parties, but then assigns each ballot to a single party. This opens a whole range of possible systems, all representative. We show theoretically that this space is convex. Then among the possi...

Abstract We identify as political transformists the Italian members of parliament (MPs) who cross aisle and vote for legislation opposed by their own group—i.e., MPs transform from opposition to ruling parties (or government supporters) into a force supporting opposition)—thus representing sources party governmental instability. Transformism, which characterized 471 over period considered, does...

The paper presents evidence on the effect of voter demobilization in the context of the Canadian 2011 federal election. Voters in 27 ridings (as of February 26, 2012) allegedly received automated phone calls (‘robocalls’) that either contained misleading information about the location of their polling station, or were harassing in nature, claiming to originate from a particular candidate in the...

In 2010, the United Kingdom called on a General Election after Queen agreed to grant an approval Gordon Brown’s proposal dissolve parliament. The Queen’s resulted prorogation marking end of parliamentary period. was used as stage for Kingdom’s three biggest parties assert their political dominance. Publishing her first novel adult, Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling attempted deliberate change atmosp...

Following Labour’s defeat in the 1983 general election, Michael Foot resigned as Party Leader. In the election to choose his successor (contested under the new electoral college format) Neil Kinnock received over seventy-one per cent of the electoral college vote, enjoying the crucial support of all the largest trade unions, and he also emerged as the clear winner in the CLP and PLP sections (R...

Abstract One of the “bailout countries” during Great Recession, Portugal is an interesting case-study to analyse EU politicisation and its effects at national level. In this chapter, media, parliamentary voting data provide a comprehensive picture role in Portuguese political behaviour. Trends issue are presented using salience tone mainstream media debates from 2002 2019. As expected, post-200...