D. Ezra Sidran

22C:196:001 Algorithms, Games and the WEB.

Power Indices, the Electoral College and the U. S. Presidential Election of 2000

Students Involved:
D. Ezra Sidran


Power Indices Calculated for 2000 U. S. Presidential Election here.

Bibliography:
Title
Location
Market Power: A Dynamic Definition http://peru.ece.wisc.edu/alvarado/1998/santoriniMarket.pdf
Power Indices of Voting Game http://www.misojiro.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tomomi/cgi-bin/vpower/index-e.cgi
The Voting Power Approach: A Theory of Measurement; A Response to Max Albert by Christian List http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Politics/papers/2003/List-EUPolitics.pdf
Voting Power and Power Index Website http://powerslave.val.utu.fi/links.html
Efficient Computation of Power Indices for Weighted Majority Games
by Takeaki Uno

http://research.nii.ac.jp/TechReports/03-006E.pdf
AGGREGATED COMBAT MODELS
http://www.nps.navy.mil/orfacpag/resumePages/notes/aggregated.pdf
Game Theory Essentials
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~bialas/IE664/docs/s06.pdf
Fun & Games : A text on Game Theory, Ken Binmore HB 144.B56 1992 University of Iowa Main Library
Toward a History of Game Theory: Annual Supplement to Volume 24 History of Political Economy Edited by E. Roy Weintraub
HB 144.T68 1992 University of Iowa Main Library
Standard Voting Power Indexes Don’t Work: An Empirical Analysis; Gelman, Katz, Bafumi (2003)
http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/Seminars/Seminars-Spring2004/banzhaf_bjps_final.pdf
US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:
FIXING THE SYSTEM, Pekec (2000)
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~pekec/bio/FixingTheSystem.PDF
Voting Power and Power Index Website (An extensive bibliography)
http://powerslave.val.utu.fi/power_index_literature04-09-2002.html
HOW MUCH DOES A VOTE COUNT? VOTING POWER, COALITIONS,
AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE; Gelman, Katz (2001)
http://jkatz.caltech.edu/papers/wp1121.pdf
Computing Power Indices for Large Voting Games; Dennis Leech
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/papers/twerpleech.pdf
U.S. presidential election, 2000 http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/U_S_presidential_election_2000.html
The US Electoral College Web Zine
http://www.avagara.com/e_c/
U. S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) | U. S. Electora College
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/votes/index.html
Electoral College, Popular Vote and Regional
Information; Behm and Gruner; 2002
http://www.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/gruener/Electoral%20College.pdf

The U.S. Electoral College Calculator

http://www.grayraven.com/ec/
Designing the voting system for the Council of the European Union; Leech
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CSGR/Publications/Leech/Leech_PC02




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