The geometry of voting power : weighted voting and hyper-ellipsoids
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- Houy, Nicolas & Zwicker, William S., 2014. "The geometry of voting power: Weighted voting and hyper-ellipsoids," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 7-16.
- Nicolas Houy & William S. Zwicker, 2014. "The geometry of voting power: weighted voting and hyper-ellipsoids," Post-Print halshs-00926969, HAL.
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Keywords
voting power; simple games; ellipsoidal separability; weighted voting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2013-01-19 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2013-01-19 (Positive Political Economics)
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