On Voting Power Indices and a Class of Probability Distributions: With applications to EU data

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-31

  Berg, Sven ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decisive game; EU Council of Ministers; P lya Eggenberger distribution; Voting power index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033481945     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008673712816     Document Type: Article

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