ASSESSMENT OF VOTING SITUATIONS: THE PROBABILISTIC FOUNDATIONS

Federico Valenciano () and Annick Laruelle ()

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: In this paper we revise the probabilistic foundations of the theory of the measurement of 'voting power' either as success or decisiveness. For an assessment of these features two inputs are claimed to be necessary: the voting procedure and the voters' behavior. We propose a simple model in which the voters' behavior is summarized by a probability distribution over all vote configurations. This basic model, at once simpler and more general that other probabilistic models, provides a clear conceptual common basis to reinterpret coherently from a unified point of view di.erent power indices and some related game theoretic notions, as well as a wider perspective for a dispassionate assessment of the power indices themselves, their merits and their limitations.

Keywords: Voting rules; voting power; decisiveness; success; power indices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2002-11
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