We exhibit the hidden beauty of weighted voting and voting power by applying a generalization of the Penrose-Banzhaf index to social choice rules. Three players who have multiple votes in a committee decide between three options by plurality rule, Borda's rule, antiplurality rule, or one of the scoring rules in between. A priori influence on outcomes is quantified in terms of how players' probabilities to be pivotal for the committee decision compare to a dictator. The resulting numbers are represented in triangles that map out structurally equivalent voting weights. Their geometry and color variation reflect fundamental differences between voting rules, such as their inclusiveness and transparency.
翻译:我们通过将Penrose-Banzhaf指数的概括化适用于社会选择规则,展示了加权投票和投票权的隐蔽美貌。 在委员会中拥有多票的三位参与者通过多元规则、博尔达规则、反多元化规则或中间的评分规则之一在三个选项之间作出决定。对结果的先验影响体现在参与者对于委员会决定至关重要的概率如何与独裁者相比较上。 由此产生的数字以三角形为代表,三角形绘制出结构上等值的投票权重。 它们的几何和颜色变化反映了投票规则之间的根本差异,比如其包容性和透明度。