Does everyone have equal voting power?

Autor: Debabrata Pal
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Indian Economic Review. 56:515-525
ISSN: 2520-1778
0019-4670
DOI: 10.1007/s41775-021-00117-6
Popis: Banzhaf (Rutgers Law Rev 19:317–343, 1965) shows by citing a few examples that distortion in the bargaining power of the legislators may exist in the legislative body under weighted voting rules. Such a distortion leads to the incidence of unequal voting power of the citizens. In this paper, we investigate whether the distortion in the bargaining power is confined to a few weighted voting rules or is a general phenomenon. We show if the number of dominant political views (parties) present in a country is at most four, then there exists no weighted voting rule such that the distortion in the bargaining power can be avoided.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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