An Empirical Comparison of the Performance of Classical Power Indices.

Power indices are general measures of the relative a priori voting power of individual members of a voting body. They are useful for both positive and normative analysis of voting bodies particularly those using weighted voting. This paper applies new algorithms for computing the rival Shapley-Shubi...

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Published in:Political Studies Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23
Main Author: Leech, Dennis
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Mar2002
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