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Felsenthal and Machover have made substantial contributions to the measurement of voting power. It is worth bearing in mind, however, that the notion of political power is actually a quite general one of which voting power is one instantiation. In this brief paper, we consider political power in the general sense and propose a definition. We will show that when applied specifically to voting power, our definition is a generalization of Banzhaf’s definition.
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Many of the technical aspects of this paper have been developed in greater detail in our previous paper (Diskin and Koppel 2010).
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Diskin, A., Koppel, M. (2014). The Measurement of Voting Power as a Special Case of the Measurement of Political Power. In: Fara, R., Leech, D., Salles, M. (eds) Voting Power and Procedures. Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05158-1_3
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