Title:	Voting Power and Procedures
Authors:	Rudolf Fara Dennis Leech Maurice Salles
Keywords:	Voting Power
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This volume collects the invited essays presented in honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover. Most of the papers were delivered at the Voting Power in Practice Symposium, Voting Power in Social/Political Institutions: Typology, Measurement, Applications held at the London School of Economics, 20–22 March 2011. The symposium had been planned both to mark the end of 8 years of Leverhulme Trust funding of the LSE’s Voting Power & Procedures (VPP) research programme and to celebrate the immense contribution to the field of voting theory by Felsenthal and Machover’s (F&M) critically acclaimed monograph The Measurement of Voting Power (MVP) published a decade earlier. The co-celebration was a unique and altogether fitting tribute, to which a brief background sketch will attest, to F&M’s landmark book and to the VPP research programme it inspired. The generous research award, in its turn, helped enormously to encourage the prodigious qualitative output from the F&M partnership for more than a decade. MVP was a comprehensive analysis of a priori voting power theory and its measurement, and more. As well as its own important theoretical contributions, it analysed and contextualised the history, and drew on numerous pertinent case studies from the EU, UN and US governance to exemplify the origins and development of this foundational area of social choice. The book’s reviewers at the time were unanimous in their praise: “To say that this book is excellent would be an understatement. It is really remarkable ::: ”; “The history of the power indices goes back more than fifty years and is told accurately and completely, for the first time ::: ”; “It is at the cutting edge of research in the theory and measurement of a priori voting power, but it is also of practical and political relevance, insofar as it provides a sound basis for the analysis of real-life decision-making processes”; “ ::: No one working in the field of formal political theory, institutional design and/or applied social choice theory can afford to ignore it” ::: and so on
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53115
ISBN:	978-3-319-05158-1
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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