A note on measuring voters’ responsibility
Felsenthal, Dan S.; and Machover, Moshé
(2009)
A note on measuring voters’ responsibility.
Homo Oeconomicus, 26 (2).
pp. 259-271.
ISSN 0943-0180
We consider a singular event of the following form: in a simple voting game, a particular division of the voters resulted in a positive outcome. We propose a plausible measure that quantifies the causal contribution of any given voter to the outcome. This measure is based on a conceptual analysis due to Braham [1], but differs from his solution to the problem of measuring causality of singular events.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Coleman’s measure of power to prevent action,degrees of causation,extent of individual responsibility for collective decision,necessary element of a su�cient set (NESS),simple voting game (SVG) |
| Departments | CPNSS |
| Date Deposited | 15 Apr 2008 13:21 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/4296 |