Voting Power and Procedures Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fara, Rudolf (Editor), Leech, Dennis (Editor), Salles, Maurice (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare,
• Subjects: Political economy.; Political philosophy.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Political Economy.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Political Philosophy.
• Physical Description: X, 397 p. 74 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319051581
• ISSN: 1614-0311

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others - are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies well-known procedures and/or apportionment methods either from a technical or historical point of view.