Extended voting measures
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Extended Voting Measures
This paper extends a number of voting measures used to quantify voting power. The extension is based on the recognition that individuals sometimes vote in coalitions. This observation gives rise to a statistical model which considers past voting patterns of subsets of eligible voters. The model is then used to obtain estimates of the probabilities of all voting combinations from which empirical...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Statistics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0319-5724,1708-945X
DOI: 10.2307/3315499