This paper uses the Banzhaf power measure to calculate the a priori voting power of individual voters under the existing Electoral College system for electing the President of the United States, as well as under variants of this system in which electoral votes are either apportioned among the states in a different manner or cast by the states in a different manner. While the present winner-take...

The article discribe methods of verifing the conditions of access in computer systems based on Take-Grant protection model.

Weighted committee games generalize n-player simple voting games to m ≥ 3 alternatives. The committee’s aggregation rule treats votes anonymously but parties, shareholders, members of supranational organizations, etc. differ in their numbers of votes. Infinitely many vote distributions induce only finitely many distinct mappings from preference profiles to winners, i.e., non-equivalent committe...

A growing body of evidence shows that individuals respond not only to the pure economic incentives they face but also to the manner in which such incentives are presented and framed. Such behavior appears to be particularly relevant in analysis of saving choices. Brigitte C. Madrian and Dennis F. Shea (2001), for example, show that changing the default rules for 401(k) enrollment has a signific...