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Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After

Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After

Manfred J. Holler Hannu Nurmi •

Editors

Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After

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Editors Manfred J. Holler Department of Economics Institute of SocioEconomics University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany

ISBN 978-3-642-35928-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-35929-3

Hannu Nurmi Department of Political Science and Contemporary History University of Turku Turku, Finland

ISBN 978-3-642-35929-3

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Foreword

Political, economic, social life is essentially governed according to the power of agents, be they individuals, institutions, states, countries, etc. As a consequence, it is not surprising that power is a major ingredient of social science. Although this appears today as self-evident, it was not the case some decades ago. In 1938, no less than Bertrand Russell devoted a volume to this topic. I am afraid that this book has been rather neglected.1 Russell wrote on page 4: In the course of this book I shall be concerned to prove that the fundamental concept in social science is Pow