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Voting Power and Procedures

Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover

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Editors:
  1. Rudolf Fara

    1. Centre for Philosophy of Nat. and Social Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Dennis Leech

    1. Department of Economics S2.116, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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  3. Maurice Salles

    1. CREM, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

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  • Presents new research results on voting and voting procedures from leading experts
  • Shows new developments on the foundations of power measurement
  • Introduces new voting methods

Part of the book series: Studies in Choice and Welfare (WELFARE)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Overview and Interview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Rudolf Fara, Dennis Leech, Maurice Salles
      Pages 3-9

    3. An Interview with Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover: Biography, Context and Some Further Thoughts on Voting

      • Rudolf Fara
      Pages 11-29

  3. Foundations of Power Measurement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. The Measurement of Voting Power as a Special Case of the Measurement of Political Power

      • Abraham Diskin, Moshe Koppel
      Pages 33-40

    3. On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

      • René van den Brink, Frank Steffen
      Pages 41-64

    4. Voting Power Techniques: What Do They Measure?

      • Sreejith Das
      Pages 65-95

    5. Voting Power and Probability

      • Claus Beisbart
      Pages 97-116

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

      • Olga Birkmeier, Friedrich Pukelsheim
      Pages 117-124

  4. Power in Two-Tier Voting Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Square Root Voting System, Optimal Threshold and π

      • Karol Życzkowski, Wojciech Słomczyński
      Pages 127-146

    3. The Fate of the Square Root Law for Correlated Voting

      • Werner Kirsch, Jessica Langner
      Pages 147-158

    4. The Mean Voter, the Median Voter, and Welfare-Maximizing Voting Weights

      • Nicola Maaser, Stefan Napel
      Pages 159-176

    5. A Priori Voting Power When One Vote Counts in Two Ways, with Application to Two Variants of the U.S. Electoral College

      • Nicholas R. Miller
      Pages 177-202

  5. Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley–Shubik, et al.

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Aspects of Power Overlooked by Power Indices

      • Manfred J. Holler, Hannu Nurmi
      Pages 205-219

    3. Banzhaf–Coleman and Shapley–Shubik Indices in Games with a Coalition Structure: A Special Case Study

      • Maria Ekes
      Pages 221-246

    4. Pathology or Revelation? The Public Good Index

      • Manfred J. Holler, Hannu Nurmi
      Pages 247-257

    5. On the Possibility of a Preference-Based Power Index: The Strategic Power Index Revisited

      • Dieter Schmidtchen, Bernard Steunenberg
      Pages 259-286
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About this book

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies well-known procedures and/or apportionment methods either from a technical or historical point of view.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Philosophy of Nat. and Social Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

    Rudolf Fara

  • Department of Economics S2.116, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Dennis Leech

  • CREM, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

    Maurice Salles

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