Influence in Weighted Committees

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Kurz, Sascha ; Mayer, Alexander ; Napel, Stefan:
Influence in Weighted Committees.
2021
Event: GAMES 2020, the 6th World Congres of the Game Theory Society , 19.-23.07.2021 , Budapest, Ungarn.
(Conference item: Conference , Speech )

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Committee decisions on more than two alternatives much depend on the adopted aggregation rule, and so does the distribution of power among committee members. We quantify how different voting methods such as pairwise majority votes, plurality voting with or without a runoff, or Borda rule map asymmetric numbers of seats, shares, voting weights, etc. to influence on collective outcomes when individual preferences vary. Generalizations of the Penrose-Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik power indices are proposed and applied to elections of the IMF Managing Director. Previous analysis of a priori power in binary voting is thus extended to universal social choice rules.