The Measurement of Voting Power as a Special Case of the Measurement of Political Power

Abraham Diskin () and Moshe Koppel ()
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Abraham Diskin: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe Koppel: Bar-Ilan University

A chapter in Voting Power and Procedures, 2014, pp 33-40 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Felsenthal and Machover have made substantial contributions to the measurement of voting power. It is worth bearing in mind, however, that the notion of political power is actually a quite general one of which voting power is one instantiation. In this brief paper, we consider political power in the general sense and propose a definition. We will show that when applied specifically to voting power, our definition is a generalization of Banzhaf’s definition.

Keywords: Banzhaf Measure; Close Calls; Half Votes; Definition Suffers; Complete Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05158-1_3

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