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Strict proportional power in voting bodies

✍ Scribed by Manfred J. Holler

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Weight: 419 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-5833
DOI: 10.1007/bf00126416

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✦ Synopsis

It is a widely known fact among game theorists as well as political scientists that the distribution of voting weights in a voting body is generally a poor proxy for the distribution of voting power within the body. It has been proposed to equate the distribution of a priori voting power and actual seat distribution by randomizing the decision rule of the voting body over various majority rules. In this paper, some implications of this procedure will be discussed.

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