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Minimal-axiom characterizations of the Coleman and Banzhaf indices of voting power
✍ Scribed by Rana Barua; Satya R. Chakravarty; Palash Sarkar
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 471 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-4896
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✦ Synopsis
Coleman [Coleman, J.S., 1971. Control of collectives and the power of a collectivity to act. In: Lieberman, B. (Ed.), Social Choice. Gordon and Breach, New York, pp. 269-298] suggested two indices of voting power, power to prevent an action and power to initiate an action. This paper develops two-axiom (and hence, minimal) characterizations of both the indices. We also show that similar characterizations can be done for other indices.