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Extended voting measures
Author(s) -
Heard Andrew,
Swartz Tim
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
canadian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1708-945X
pISSN - 0319-5724
DOI - 10.2307/3315499
Subject(s) - voting , anti plurality voting , extension (predicate logic) , econometrics , cardinal voting systems , approval voting , supreme court , computer science , mathematics , statistics , political science , law , politics , programming language
Abstract This paper extends a number of voting measures used to quantify voting power. The extension is based on the recognition that individuals sometimes vote in coalitions. This observation gives rise to a statistical model which considers past voting patterns of subsets of eligible voters. The model is then used to obtain estimates of the probabilities of all voting combinations from which empirical measures are calculated. The calculation of the estimated probabilities may involve high‐dimensional integrations. An example is given based on past decisions arising from the Supreme Court of Canada.