Indirect voting systems: Banzhaf numbers, majority functions and collective competence

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 557-573

  Berg, Sven ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Banzhaf number; Group competency; Indirect voting; Jury theorem; Majority function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031231814     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(97)00014-1     Document Type: Article

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