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

Authors : Abraham Diskin, Moshe Koppel

Published in: Voting Power and Procedures

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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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.

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Many of the technical aspects of this paper have been developed in greater detail in our previous paper (Diskin and Koppel 2010).

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Title: The Measurement of Voting Power as a Special Case of the Measurement of Political Power
Authors: Abraham Diskin
Moshe Koppel
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_3