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A Probabilistic Re-View on Felsenthal and Machover’s “The Measurement of Voting Power”

Authors : Olga Birkmeier, Friedrich Pukelsheim

Published in: Voting Power and Procedures

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Felsenthal and Machover (1998, The Measurement of voting power – theory and practice, problems and paradoxes. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) celebrated monograph on The Measurement of Voting Power set off a renewed impetus on the analysis of weighted voting systems. Their presentation strikes a balance between the game-theoretic and the probabilistic approaches to the subject. The present paper holds that the probabilistic view may be profitably extended even further, in providing helpful language as well as motivating new results.

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Title: A Probabilistic Re-View on Felsenthal and Machover’s “The Measurement of Voting Power”
Authors: Olga Birkmeier
Friedrich Pukelsheim
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Voting Power and Procedures
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-05157-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-05158-1

Copyright Year: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05158-1_7