Heuristic and exact solutions to the inverse power index problem for small voting bodies

DOI10.1007/S10479-012-1293-0zbMath1309.91011arXiv1202.6245OpenAlexW2137845619MaRDI QIDQ744673

Sascha Kurz, Stefan Napel

Publication date: 26 September 2014

Published in: Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6245

zbMATH Keywords

weighted voting gamessimple gamesinstitutional designelectoral systemsPenrose limit theoremPenrose-Banzhaf indexsquare root rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cooperative games (91A12) Voting theory (91B12)

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