scholarly journals Representations of Political Power Structures by Strategically Stable Game Forms: A Survey

Games ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bezalel Peleg ◽  
Ron Holzman
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Game Forms

Power, Luck and Freedom

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Dowding
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Liberal Paradox ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Game Forms

The book collects thirteen previously published essays by Keith Dowding on social and political power, freedom, choice and luck. It is anchored by a substantial introductory essay that pulls together the different strands to demonstrate the coherence and connections between the different concepts discussed through the book. The book demonstrates the importance of the concept of power to political science and argues that comparative static definitions enable comparison of power structures in terms of agents’ resources. It shows the importance of systematic luck in understanding the power structure. However, static definitions are inherently unsatisfactory in dynamic settings. Here we need to apply game theory rather than game forms, and in dynamic settings luck is vital to our perception of freedom, responsibility and leadership. Later chapters reveal the problematic evaluation of choice and freedom and how these relate to responsibility. The book concludes by demonstrating that freedom and rights exist in different senses, which matter for our understanding of how much freedom exists in a society. It shows that Sen’s liberal paradox is ambiguous between rights as claims and rights as liberties; how fundamental his paradox is to our understanding of the conflict between rights and welfare depends on the manner in which we evaluate freedom.

ICT in Direct Democracy

2015 ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Stavros Amanatidis ◽  
Olga Eirini Palla
Keyword(s):  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Strong Function ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Developments

This chapter presents and analyzes the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in public participation and more specificly in e-referenda as an aspect of direct democratic participation. It aims to explain the correlation between ICT and e-referenda. Referendum, used as an instrument to accept or deny a proposed political decision, has a strong function of controlling political power and securing the openness of political power structures. It serves as an instrument of division of powers and opens roads to opposition outside parliament. In general, it provides the people with veto positions (Schiller, 2003, p. 12). By presenting the evolvement of the ICT and the technological developments that resulted an impact on the way democracy is being exercised in the modern societies, there is an attempt to provide ideas and solutions on the use of e-referenda in modern democracies. The dangers, the advantages, and the disadvantages of the use of ICT in democracy are presented and analysed as well. All these issues are being discussed, as this chapter tries to give a clear and objective perspective regarding the role of e-democracy and the problems that come along with its implementation.

5. Other rights: Domain names, publicity, trade secrets, data, and designs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Political Power ◽  
New Right ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Trade Secrets ◽  
Domain Names ◽  
Personality Rights

Many other forms of intellectual property beyond the big three—copyright, patent, and trademark—reflect particular national agendas and political power structures. Some of them exist only in particular countries. Others protect narrow interests. “Other rights” describes some of these rights: domain names, geographic marks, personality rights, trade secrets, and misappropriation and data protection. The rise of these sui generis regimes and the proposals to create a new right for fashion design in recent years reveal the extent to which intellectual property is a function more of politics and the power of special interests than carefully balanced policy decisions or high-minded theory.

On Material Constitutional Thought

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Camila Vergara
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
Constitutional Thought

This chapter proposes a methodological approach to the study of constitutions that goes beyond the written text and jurisprudence in order to incorporate the material structure of society. It interprets the factual organization and exercise of power that is allowed and enabled by foundational institutions, rules, and procedures. It also discusses the premise of material constitutionalism on the idea that the organization of political power cannot be analyzed without taking into account political and socioeconomic power structures. The chapter establishes a constitutional ideology that stands opposed to legal positivism, formalism, and proceduralism. It traces the material approach back to Niccolò Machiavelli and distinguishes between institutionalist and critical strands.

scholarly journals How Roma Mayors Penetrate the Municipal Power Structures: Resisting the Non-Roma Dominance in Slovak Local Governments

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-411
Author(s):  
Tomáš Hrustič
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
Power Asymmetries

AbstractThis paper discusses the outcomes of power asymmetries in Slovak municipalities with Roma population and presents examples how local Roma leaders resist the non-Roma dominance by active participation in local elections. Presenting data from field research and long-term repeated observations, the paper shows successful strategies of elected Roma mayors who disrupt the usual perception of the Roma as objects of decision-making process and passive recipients of various policies. In these paternalistic beliefs Roma have never been seen as actors who can control resources, who could hold the political power and who could decide how to use the resources. Although the Roma have penetrated the power structures of many municipalities, they are not able to wipe out invisible ethnic boundaries, or, at least, to soften and disrupt them. However, as the text illustrates, it seems that the political power asymmetries in a significant number of municipalities are being balanced, nevertheless, the symbolic dominance and symbolic power of non-Roma still persists.

ICT in Direct Democracy

2014 ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Stavros Amanatidis ◽  
Olga Eirini Palla
Keyword(s):  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Strong Function ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Developments

This chapter presents and analyzes the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in public participation and more specificly in e-referenda as an aspect of direct democratic participation. It aims to explain the correlation between ICT and e-referenda. Referendum, used as an instrument to accept or deny a proposed political decision, has a strong function of controlling political power and securing the openness of political power structures. It serves as an instrument of division of powers and opens roads to opposition outside parliament. In general, it provides the people with veto positions (Schiller, 2003, p. 12). By presenting the evolvement of the ICT and the technological developments that resulted an impact on the way democracy is being exercised in the modern societies, there is an attempt to provide ideas and solutions on the use of e-referenda in modern democracies. The dangers, the advantages, and the disadvantages of the use of ICT in democracy are presented and analysed as well. All these issues are being discussed, as this chapter tries to give a clear and objective perspective regarding the role of e-democracy and the problems that come along with its implementation.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Frazer
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Economic Exchanges

This chapter introduces the concepts and problems of political conduct, political power, statecraft, and resistance that Shakespeare treats in his dramas, discussing how they are put into relationship with other forms and kinds of conduct and power: military distinction, intimate and interpersonal connections, religious authority, economic exchanges and circulations. Diverse meanings of ‘politic’ and associated terms—in particular the question of the extent to which political conduct must be open, and the extent to which it is associated with occult or tricky strategy and secrecy—are also dramatized by Shakespeare. The book’s method—which consists of readings of Shakespeare’s dramas in a way that highlights how political power structures plots, and is articulated in texts—is set out, including discussion of the political theory context for Shakespeare’s dramatic art, and its continuing relevance in political thought.

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