Measuring voting power in continuous policy spaces

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Kurz, Sascha:
Measuring voting power in continuous policy spaces.
2017
Event: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Opinion Dynamics and Collective Decision 2017 , 05.-07.07.2017 , Bremen.
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Classical power index analysis considers the individual’s ability to influence the aggregated group decision by changing its own vote, where all decisions and votes are assumed to be binary. In many practical applications we have more options than either yes or no. In this talk we generalize power indices to continuous convex policy spaces. This allows the analysis of a collection of economic problems like e.g. tax rates or spending that otherwise would not be covered in binary models.