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Le Pouvoir de Vote dans les Etablissements Publics de Coopération Intercommunale de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe
[The Voting Power in the Inter-communal Council of Martinique and Guadeloupe]

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  • Dia, Ibrahima
  • Kamwa, Eric

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This paper deals with the distribution of seats between municipalities in the inter-communal council (EPCI) of Martinique and Guadeloupe. In each of the EPCIs, we calculate the voting power of municipalities using the Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf indices. Our analysis allows us to show that in almost all the EPCIs of Martinique and Guadeloupe, there is no similarity between the distribution of power indices and the distribution of population percentages. There is also a distortion between the distribution of power indices and the distribution of delegate percentages.

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  • Dia, Ibrahima & Kamwa, Eric, 2017. "Le Pouvoir de Vote dans les Etablissements Publics de Coopération Intercommunale de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe [The Voting Power in the Inter-communal Council of Martinique and Guadeloupe]," MPRA Paper 80572, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Banzhaf; Municipalities; Shapley- Shubik; Vote; Voting power;
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    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

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