Mathematical Social Sciences

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Volume 64, issue 3, 2012

Carrots, sticks and fog during insurgencies pp. 203-213

Michael P. Atkinson, Moshe Kress and Roberto Szechtman

The Harsanyi paradox and the “right to talk” in bargaining among coalitions pp. 214-224

Juan Vidal-Puga

Consumption externalities and equilibrium dynamics with heterogeneous agents pp. 225-233

Kazuo Mino and Yasuhiro Nakamoto

Endogenous time preference, investment externalities, and equilibrium indeterminacy pp. 234-241

Taketo Kawagishi

Expected multi-utility representations pp. 242-246

Tsogbadral Galaabaatar and Edi Karni

Monotonicity of power in weighted voting games with restricted communication pp. 247-257

Stefan Napel, Andreas Nohn and José Maria Alonso-Meijide

Product filters, acyclicity and Suzumura consistency pp. 258-262

Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura

There are more strategy-proof procedures than you think pp. 263-265

Donald E. Campbell, Jack Graver and Jerry S. Kelly

An axiomatic characterization of the position value for network situations pp. 266-271

Anne van den Nouweland and Marco Slikker

The voracity effect revisited pp. 272-276

Holger Strulik

Signaling and tacit collusion in an infinitely repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma pp. 277-289

Joseph E. Harrington and Wei Zhao

Volume 64, issue 2, 2012

Alternating offers bargaining with loss aversion pp. 103-118

Bram Driesen, Andrés Perea and Hans Peters

Agreeable trade with optimism and pessimism pp. 119-126

Adam Dominiak, Jürgen Eichberger and Jean-Philippe Lefort

Minimal exact balancedness pp. 127-135

E. Lohmann, Peter Borm and P. Jean-Jacques Herings

Sequential contributions rules for minimum cost spanning tree problems pp. 136-143

Youngsub Chun and Joosung Lee

Weighted component fairness for forest games pp. 144-151

Sylvain Béal, Eric Rémila and Philippe Solal

Existence of Nash networks and partner heterogeneity pp. 152-158

Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard and Sudipta Sarangi

Nash equilibria of network formation games under consent pp. 159-165

Robert P. Gilles, Subhadip Chakrabarti and Sudipta Sarangi

Network extension pp. 166-172

Hans Haller

Tax contracts, party bargaining, and government formation pp. 173-192

Hans Gersbach and Maik Schneider

Complexity and organizational architecture pp. 193-202

Yannis Ioannides

Volume 64, issue 1, 2012

On the computation of median linear orders, of median complete preorders and of median weak orders pp. 2-10

Olivier Hudry

Voting with rubber bands, weights, and strings pp. 11-27

Davide P. Cervone, Ronghua Dai, Daniel Gnoutcheff, Grant Lanterman, Andrew Mackenzie, Ari Morse, Nikhil Srivastava and William S. Zwicker

Experiments with Kemeny ranking: What works when? pp. 28-40

Alnur Ali and Marina Meilă

The model-theoretic approach to aggregation: Impossibility results for finite and infinite electorates pp. 41-47

Frederik Herzberg and Daniel Eckert

Committee selection under weight constraints pp. 48-56

Christian Klamler, Ulrich Pferschy and Stefan Ruzika

An example of probability computations under the IAC assumption: The stability of scoring rules pp. 57-66

Mostapha Diss, Ahmed Louichi, Vincent Merlin and Hatem Smaoui

On the manipulability of voting rules: The case of 4 and 5 alternatives pp. 67-73

Fuad Aleskerov, Daniel Karabekyan, Remzi Sanver and Vyacheslav Yakuba

New candidates welcome! Possible winners with respect to the addition of new candidates pp. 74-88

Yann Chevaleyre, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Maudet, Jérôme Monnot and Lirong Xia

Probabilistic power indices for voting rules with abstention pp. 89-99

Josep Freixas

Should social network structure be taken into account in elections? pp. 100-102

Vincent Conitzer

Volume 63, issue 3, 2012

A general scoring rule pp. 193-196

Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu

Existence of competitive equilibrium in a non-optimal one-sector economy without conditions on the distorted marginal product of capital pp. 197-206

Bertrand Crettez and Lisa Morhaim

On local stability of Cournot models with simultaneous and sequential decisions pp. 207-212

Xing Gao, Weijun Zhong and Shue Mei

Optimal prevention and other risks in a two-period model pp. 213-217

Christophe Courbage and Beatrice Rey

A theory of mood-influenced consumption and investment in health pp. 218-227

Michael Caputo and Amnon Levy

A non-cooperative support for equal division in estate division problems pp. 228-233

Itai Ashlagi, Emin Karagözoğlu and Bettina Klaus

Ranking linear budget sets with different available goods: A note pp. 234-238

Kaname Miyagishima

Group strategy-proofness and voting between two alternatives pp. 239-242

Vikram Manjunath

A divisor apportionment method based on the Kolm–Atkinson social welfare function and generalized entropy pp. 243-247

Junichiro Wada

Demand structure and the incentive to innovate pp. 248-251

Ming-Hung Weng

Dynamically consistent CEU preferences on f-convex events pp. 252-256

André Lapied and Pascal Toquebeuf

Volume 63, issue 2, 2012

European apportionment via the Cambridge Compromise pp. 68-73

Geoffrey R. Grimmett

Finding the balance of power in a post-national democracy pp. 74-77

Andrew Duff

EP seats: The politics behind the math pp. 78-84

Axel Moberg

Evaluating competing criteria for allocating parliamentary seats pp. 85-89

Richard Rose, Patrick Bernhagen and Gabriela Borz

Why not proportional? pp. 90-93

Jean-François Laslier

Mathematical aspects of degressive proportionality pp. 94-101

Wojciech Słomczyński and Karol Życzkowski

The minimum-based procedure: A principled way to allocate seats in the European Parliament pp. 102-106

Thomas Kellermann

Allocation of the EU Parliament seats via integer linear programming and revised quotas pp. 107-113

Paolo Serafini

Spline methods for degressive proportionality in the composition of the European Parliament pp. 114-120

V. Ramírez González, J. Martínez Aroza and A. Márquez García

A numerical method to determine a degressive proportional distribution of seats in the European Parliament pp. 121-129

Jan Florek

Seat distribution in the European Parliament according to the Treaty of Lisbon pp. 130-135

Victoriano Ramírez-González

A power-weighted variant of the EU27 Cambridge Compromise pp. 136-140

G.R. Grimmett, K.-F. Oelbermann and F. Pukelsheim

Computing the optimal weights in a utilitarian model of apportionment pp. 141-151

Antonin Macé and Rafael Treibich

Beyond Lisbon: Demographic trends and voting power in the European Union Council of Ministers pp. 152-158

László Kóczy

Voting power in the EU council of ministers and fair decision making in distributive politics pp. 159-173

Michel Le Breton, Maria Montero and Vera Zaporozhets

A note on the direct democracy deficit in two-tier voting pp. 174-180

Nicola Maaser and Stefan Napel

On party-proportional representation under district distortions pp. 181-191

Gabrielle Demange

Volume 63, issue 1, 2012

Preferences for harmony and minority voting pp. 1-13

Theresa C. Fahrenberger and Hans Gersbach

Intra-party decision making, party formation, and moderation in multiparty systems pp. 14-22

Gerald Pech

Farsighted stable sets in Hotelling’s location games pp. 23-30

Junnosuke Shino and Ryo Kawasaki

Stochastically stable equilibria in n-person binary coordination games pp. 31-42

Toshimasa Maruta and Akira Okada

Organizational dynamics with symmetric responses of members pp. 43-49

Ryo Nagata

Transition dynamics in an AK growth model under wage rigidity pp. 50-56

Alfred Greiner

Sustainable coalitions in the commons pp. 57-64

Luc Doyen and Jean-Christophe Pereau