On Penrose's square-root law and beyond

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-35929-3_20MaRDI QIDQ4644767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Werner Kirsch

Publication date 8 January 2019

Published in Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611418

zbMATH Keywords

voting weightfair representationPenrose's square-root law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History, political science (91F10) Voting theory (91B12)

Abstract: In certain bodies, like the Council of the EU, the member states have a voting weight which depends on the population of the re- spective state. In this article we ask the question which voting weight guarantees a `fair' representation of the citizens in the union. The tra- ditional answer, the square-root law by Penrose, is that the weight of a state (more precisely: the voting power) should be proportional to the square-root of the population of this state. The square root law is based on the assumption that the voters in every state cast their vote inde- pendently of each other. In this paper we concentrate on cases where the independence assumption is not valid.

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