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The paper introduces basics of a notion of voting game theory and illustrates its application in practice. Examples outlined in the paper show how the theory works in practice of parliamentary institutions. A few simple examples explain the difference between voting weight and voting power and show how important analysis of voting games is in practice. A study of selected decisive systems explains meaning of such notions as winning and blocking coalitions, initiative and preventive power of a player etc.
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Homenda, W. (2009). Decision Making in Voting Games: An Insight into Theory and Practice. In: Torra, V., Narukawa, Y., Inuiguchi, M. (eds) Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence. MDAI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5861. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04820-3_6
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