Computing power indices for large voting games

Management Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 831-837

  Leech, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical game theory; Power index; Voting; Weighted majority game; Weighted voting

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GAME THEORY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

VOTING POWER INDICES; WEIGHTED MAJORITY GAME;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0038106592     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.49.6.831.16024     Document Type: Article

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