On Power Indices and Reading Papers

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 600-

  Garrett, Geoffrey ^a   McLean, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 21444447105     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: 14692112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000712340000764X     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. P. Morriss, “QualifiedMajority Voting and Power Indices’, this issue, pp. 595-7; R. J. Johnston, ‘The Conflict over Qualified Voting in the European Union Council of Ministers: An Analysis of the UK Negotiating Stance Using Power Indices’, British Journal of Political Science, 25 (1995), 245-54; G. M. Garrett, I. McLean and M. Machover, ‘Power, Power Indices and Blocking Power: A Comment’, British Journal of Political Science, 25 (1995), 563-8.
2. B. L. Monroe, ‘Inherent Distortions of the Electoral College: Implications for 1992 and Beyond’ (paper presented at Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston, 1992), has shown how the US Electoral College distorts and sometimes destroys the voting value of states. His index, generalizing the Penrose conception of voting value, axiomatizes the arguments in P. Morriss, Power: A Philosophical Analysis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987), chap. 24.
3. Morriss, ‘Qualified Majority Voting’, p. 597.
4. Garrett et al., ‘Power, Power Indices and Blocking Power’, p. 567.