Myths and Meanings of Voting Power

Dan S. Felsenthal and Moshé Machover

Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2001, vol. 13, issue 1, 81-97

Abstract: These are comments on the Symposium `Power Indices and the European Union' in the July 1999 issue of this Journal. We point out several common inter-connected confusions and errors concerning the meaning of voting power. We stress the vital distinction between two different intuitive notions of voting power. We emphasize the need for a unified approach to the study of a priori and actual voting power. We show that the family of `strategic' measures proposed by some of the participants in the Symposium are a natural generalization of the Banzhaf measure

Keywords: actual and a priori voting power; European Union; I-power; P-power; strategic measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/0951692801013001004

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