Average weights and power in weighted voting games

DOI10.1016/J.MATHSOCSCI.2020.04.002MaRDI QIDQ2019323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daria Boratyn, Werner Kirsch, Wojciech Słomczyński, Dariusz Stolicki, Karol Życzkowski

Publication date 26 April 2021

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04261

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticsvoting powerPenrose-Banzhaf indexColeman efficiency indexrandom weighted voting games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We investigate a class of weighted voting games for which weights are randomly distributed over the standard probability simplex. We provide close-formed formulae for the expectation and density of the distribution of weight of the $k$-th largest player under the uniform distribution. We analyze the average voting power of the $k$-th largest player and its dependence on the quota, obtaining analytical and numerical results for small values of $n$ and a general theorem about the functional form of the relation between the average Penrose--Banzhaf power index and the quota for the uniform measure on the simplex. We also analyze the power of a collectivity to act (Coleman efficiency index) of random weighted voting games, obtaining analytical upper bounds therefor.

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