We develop a theoretical framework for equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a fully representative voting …). Three equity concepts are proposed: ex-ante (procedural) equity, ex-post (outcome) equity and regional equity. The last two …

recent advances in the theory of a-priori voting power to present a formal quantitative appraisal of the “structural reforms … status quo against our measures of equity and efficiency. Several proposals may actually worsen the issues they ostensibly …

Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body in which …

Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body which uses … weighted voting. Although the approach, based on co-operative game theory, has been known for a long time it has not been very …

evaluate both the economic and the political power. We show that usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political … distortions from emerging in a huge mass of situations. We propose an alternative voting method based on random assignments of … voting rights. Agents are given chances to vote instead of weights. If chances are computed according to a specific formula …

In general, analyses of voting power are performed through the notion of a simple voting game (SVG) in which every … voter can choose between two options: 'yes' or 'no'. Felsenthal and Machover (1997) introduced the concept of ternary voting … property in weighted voting games with an increasing number of voters. It says that under certain conditions the ratio between …

Probabilistic measures of a priori voting power are useful tools to asses actors' influence on collective decision …-making either for the purpose of designing a voting organ or to model particular policy cases. This paper makes an attempt to reduce … a dynamic voting process into a cooperative voting game and uses the EU as an example. We propose a probabilistic …

Power indices have been used to evaluate the allocation of power in a wide range of voting situations. While they use … the language of game theory known measures of a priori voting power are hardly more than statistical expectations assuming …, rejected coalitions, a priori voting power, power indices, minimal winning coalitions, rational players. …