Research workshop “Voting, Power and Manipulation”
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Science, Institute of Economic Studies; cosponsored by the Czech Science Foundation
- Venue: Opletalova 26, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, Classroom 206, 1st floor
- Date: 23 – 24 September 2010
- Target group: Researchers and PhD candidates
- Program committee: Jacek W. Mercik, Frantisek Turnovec, Martin Gregor
- Local organizing committee: Pavel Dolezel, Monika Hollmannova
- Working language: English
The Institute of Economic Studies of Charles University in cooperation with the Institute of SocioEconomics of Hamburg University and the Public Choice Research Centre of the University of Turku organizes this workshop with the double aim of advancing research and providing a venue to foster further joint research cooperation in the topic for both PhD candidates and senior staff.
Final program
Thursday, September 23
14:00 Opening
- Jan Ámos Víšek, Vice-Dean for Science and Research, CharlesUniversity in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
- FrantišekTurnovec, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
14:15 – 15:45 Session I
Chair: Jacek W. Mercik, Wroclaw University of Technology
- František Turnovec, Charles University in Prague: Manipulation in voting: strategic voting, strategic nomination and clone candidates (Discussant: J. W. Mercik)
- Ján Palguta, Charles University in Prague: Voting experiments: Measuring susceptibility of voting procedures to manipulation - responsiveness of strategic voting to information (Discussant: A. Pajala)
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session II
Chair: Antti Pajala, University of Turku
- Jacek W. Mercik, Wroclaw University of Technology: On a priori evaluation of power of veto (Discussant: V. Fragnelli)
- Mariusz Mazurkiewicz, Wroclaw University of Technology: Analysis of regional aspect of voting behavior, the case of Polish presidential election (Discussant: B. Plechanovová)
17:30 – 17:40 Coffee Break
17:40 – 19:10 Session III
Chair: Vito Fragnelli, University of Eastern Piedmont
- René van den Brink, René Levínský and Miroslav Zelený, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena: On the equity principle and the balanced solution for cooperative TU-games (Discussant: W. Wegner)
- M. J. Holler and W. Wegner, Hamburg University: Power and Responsibility in Envinronmental Policy Making (Discussant: M. Mazurkiewicz)
Friday, September 24
9:00 - 10:45 Session IV
Chair: René Levínský, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
- Martin Gregor, Charles University in Prague: Signaling effects of civic initiatives under legal uncertainty (Discussant: R. Levínský)
- A. Nohn, Hamburg University, Institute of SocioEconomics and Public Choice Research Centre, Turku: Coalitional Bargaining with Markovian proposers (Discussant: M. Gregor)
- L. Šťastná, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies: Local politics and inefficiency of local government (Discussant: V. Knutelská)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:45 Session V
Chair: Martin Gregor, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
- M. Chessa and V. Fragnelli, University of Eastern Piedmont: Embedding classical indices in the FP family (Discussant: M. Mazurkiewicz)
- A. Pajala, University of Turku, Department of Political Science and Contemporary History: The Computation of Voting Power: A Performance Test of a Power Index Computer Program (Discussant: P. Doležel)
- P. Doležel, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies: Note of the Efficiency of Weighted Voting Systems (Discussant: J. Palguta)
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:15 Session VI
Chair: Andreas Nohn, Hamburg University
- B. Plechanovová, CharlesUniversity in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science: The Lisbon Treaty and Decision-Making in the EU Council: Should we expect a Policy Shift? (Discussant: F. Turnovec)
- R. Hokovský, V. Knutelská, CharlesUniversity in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science: Role of political affiliation across the European institutions in the dynamics of the EU legislative process (Discussant: M. Pařízek)
- M. Pařízek,Madeleine O. Hosli and Běla Plechanovová, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science: Inertia and patterns of decision making in the Council of the European Union (Discussant: L. Šťastná)
15:15 Closing
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS AND DISCUSSIONS AND HOW TO FIND US
