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Three most frequently used measures of a priori voting power of members of a committee were proposed by Shapley and Shubik (1954), Penrose (1946) and Banzhaf (1965), and Holler and Packel (1983). We shall refer to them also as SS-power index, PB-power index and HP-power index. There exist also some other well defined power indices, such as Johnston index (1978) and Deegan-Packel index (1979).1
For a comprehensive survey and analysis of power indices methodology, see Felsenthal and Machover (1998).
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Turnovec, F., Mercik, J.W., Mazurkiewicz, M. (2008). Power Indices Methodology: Decisiveness, Pivots, and Swings. In: Braham, M., Steffen, F. (eds) Power, Freedom, and Voting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73382-9_2
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