The bicameral postulates and indices of a priori voting power

Theory and Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-116

  Felsenthal, Dan S ^a   Machover, Moshé ^c   Zwicker, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banzhaf; Deegan Packel; Index of voting power; Johnston; Paradoxes of voting power; Penrose; Postulates for index of voting power; Shapley value; Shapley Shubik; Simple voting game; Weighted voting game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001834801     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004914608055     Document Type: Article

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