Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-9
An Interview with Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover: Biography, Context and Some Further Thoughts on Voting....Pages 11-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Measurement of Voting Power as a Special Case of the Measurement of Political Power....Pages 33-40
On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction....Pages 41-64
Voting Power Techniques: What Do They Measure?....Pages 65-95
Voting Power and Probability....Pages 97-116
A Probabilistic Re-View on Felsenthal and Machover’s “The Measurement of Voting Power”....Pages 117-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Square Root Voting System, Optimal Threshold and π....Pages 127-146
The Fate of the Square Root Law for Correlated Voting....Pages 147-158
The Mean Voter, the Median Voter, and Welfare-Maximizing Voting Weights....Pages 159-176
 A Priori Voting Power When One Vote Counts in Two Ways, with Application to Two Variants of the U.S. Electoral College....Pages 177-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Aspects of Power Overlooked by Power Indices....Pages 205-219
Banzhaf–Coleman and Shapley–Shubik Indices in Games with a Coalition Structure: A Special Case Study....Pages 221-246
Pathology or Revelation? The Public Good Index....Pages 247-257
On the Possibility of a Preference-Based Power Index: The Strategic Power Index Revisited....Pages 259-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
The Shapley–Owen Value and the Strength of Small Winsets: Predicting Central Tendencies and Degree of Dispersion in the Outcomes of Majority Rule Decision-Making....Pages 289-308
Postulates and Paradoxes of Voting Power in a Noncooperative Setting....Pages 309-321
Satisfaction Approval Voting....Pages 323-346
The Structure of Voters’ Preferences Induced by the Dual Culture Condition....Pages 347-361
Three Apportionment Problems, with Applications to the United Kingdom....Pages 363-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover: List of Joint Publications....Pages 383-387
Dan Felsenthal: List of Publications....Pages 389-394
Moshé Machover: List of Publications....Pages 395-397