Power indices in large voting bodies
โ Scribed by Dennis Leech
- Book ID
- 120760559
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 642 KB
- Volume
- 155
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-5829
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