An experimental investigation of pure voting power Geller, Christopher, Mustard, Jamie and Shahwan, Ranya 2004, An experimental investigation of pure voting power, in Selected papers from the 33rd Australian Conference of Economists, Sydney Sept. 27-30, 2004, Blackwell, Oxford, England, pp. 1-21. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title An experimental investigation of pure voting power Author(s) Geller, Christopher Mustard, Jamie orcid.org/0000-0002-1897-2321 Shahwan, Ranya Conference name Australian Conference of Economists (33rd : 2004 : Sydney, Australia) Conference location Sydney, Australia Conference dates 27-30 September 2004 Title of proceedings Selected papers from the 33rd Australian Conference of Economists, Sydney Sept. 27-30, 2004 Editor(s) Sheen, Jeffrey Wright, Donald Publication date 2004 Conference series Australian Conference of Economists Start page 1 End page 21 Publisher Blackwell Place of publication Oxford, England Keyword(s) voting power index Shapley-Shubik Banzhaf Johnston Burgin experiment Summary We evaluate the accuracy of power indices by experimentally measuring the political power embodied in blocks of votes per se.  The experiment incorporates several players interacting in online chat rooms under supervision.  The chat rooms and the selection process reduce or eliminate extraneous political forces leaving logrolling as the primary political force.  Results show that two standard power indices reflect voting power while other power indices and proportionality do not. ISBN 1864876646 9781864876642 Language eng Field of Research 140299 Applied Economics not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economics HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005302 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 21 Jan 2009, 14:11:39 EST Mon, 10 May 2010, 14:08:08 EST Mon, 10 May 2010, 14:10:26 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 13:26:54 EST Tue, 11 Jun 2013, 13:53:31 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 08:39:51 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 985 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:48:00 EST