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.