Abstract
This chapter discusses voting power, which is the most suggestive concept in the vocabulary of political scientists. It is also one of the most intractable concepts, bristling with apparently contradictory meanings and implications. For example, one implication of most definitions of power is that the greater the proportion of resources that an actor controls, the greater is his or her power. The resources that an actor possesses are chimerical in achieving better outcomes. A chair in a voting body who presumably can cast a tie-breaking vote in addition to a regular vote may be at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the regular members when the preference rankings of outcomes by the members all differ. This phenomenon is called the paradox of the chair's position. The chapter explores possible ways by which a chair may circumvent this paradox either through deception or under different voting rules.
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