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

Abraham Diskin; Moshe Koppel

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

Abraham Diskin, Moshe Koppel

Department of Computer Science

Bar-Ilan University

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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.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Voting Power and Procedures
Editors	Rudolf Fara, Dennis Leech, Maurice Salles
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Pages	33-40
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05158-1_3
State	Published - 1 Apr 2014

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Name	Studies in Choice and Welfare

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