The Measurement of Voting Power: Theory and Practice, Problems and Paradoxes

by Dan S. Felsenthal and Moshe Machover

This book is the first of its kind: a monograph devoted to a systematic critical examination and exposition of the theory of a priori voting power. This important branch of social-choice theory overlaps with game theory and is concerned with the ability of members in bodies that make yes or no decisions by vote to affect the outcome. The book includes, among other topics, a reasoned distinction between two fundamental types of voting power, the authors'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858988055
• ISBN13: 9781858988054
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Dimensions: 50.0" x 25.0"