2 00 9 Power indices and minimal winning coalitions Werner Kirsch and Jessica Langner
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The Banzhaf index and the Shapley-Shubik index are the best-known and the most used tools to measure political power of voters in a voting system. Most methods to calculate these power indices are based on counting winning coalitions, in particular those coalitions a voter is decisive for. We present a new combinatorial formula to calculate both indices solely using the set of minimal winning coalitions.
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2 00 9 Power indices and minimal winning coalitions Werner Kirsch and Jessica Langner June 21 , 2009
The Banzhaf index and the Shapley-Shubik index are the best-known and the most used tools to measure political power of voters in a voting system. Most methods to calculate these power indices are based on counting winning coalitions, in particular those coalitions a voter is decisive for. We present a new combinatorial formula to calculate both indices solely using the set of minimal winning c...
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