Voting Power of Teams Working Together

arXiv1312.3394MaRDI QIDQ6247239FDOQ6247239

Publication date: 11 December 2013

Abstract: Voting power determines the "power" of individuals who cast votes; their power is based on their ability to influence the winning-ness of a coalition. Usually each individual acts alone, casting either all or none of their votes and is equally likely to do either. This paper extends this standard "random voting" model to allow probabilistic voting, partial voting, and correlated team voting. We extend the standard Banzhaf metric to account for these cases; our generalization reduces to the standard metric under "random voting", This new paradigm allows us to answer questions such as "In the 2013 US Senate, how much more unified would the Republicans have to be in order to have the same power as the Democrats in attaining cloture?"

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