Barua, Rana; Chakravarty, Satya R.; Roy, Sonali

International Game Theory Review Vol. 7 no. 4 (December 2005): 545-553.

This paper develops a new axiomatic characterization of the Banzhaf index of power using four axioms from four different contributions to the area. A nice feature of the characterization is independence of the axioms showing importance of each of them in the exercise.

Keywords: voting game, Voting power, Banzhaf index, axioms, characterization