Dan S. Felsenthal (University of Haifa, Department of Political Science, Haifa, Israel) Moshé Machover (Department of Philosophy, King's Collge, Strand, London, UK)
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We discuss two inter-related puzzling features of the literature on a priori voting power. First, the mathematical model used in virtually all this literature does not recognize abstention as an option distinct from both a 'yes' and a 'no' vote. Second, reallife decision rules of voting bodies - in particular the US legislature and the UN Security Council - are misrepresented as though they did not allow abstention as a tertium quid. We suggest that these misrepresentations may be examples of what philosophers of science call 'theory-laden observation'.
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