Solving the Inverse Power Problem in Two-Tier Voting Settings
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Keywords
inverse power problem; indirect voting power; two-tier voting; Penrose’s Square Root Rule;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-04-25 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-GTH-2015-04-25 (Game Theory)
- NEP-POL-2014-07-21 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-POL-2015-04-25 (Positive Political Economics)
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