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Myths and Meanings of Voting Power

Comments on a Symposium

Dan S. Felsenthal

Moshé Machover

These are comments on the Symposium `Power Indices and the European Union' in the July 1999 issue of this Journal. We point out several common inter-connected confusions and errors concerning the meaning of voting power. We stress the vital distinction between two different intuitive notions of voting power. We emphasize the need for a unified approach to the study of a priori and actual voting power. We show that the family of `strategic' measures proposed by some of the participants in the Symposium are a natural generalization of the Banzhaf measure

Key Words: actual and a priori voting power • European Union • I-power • P-power • strategic measures

Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 13, No. 1, 81-97 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0951692801013001004
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