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Banzhaf voting power measure  

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  • The Banzhaf voting power measure (β') is one of the best known and most widely applied measures of a priori voting power. Although introduced in 1946 by Lionel Sharples Penrose, it was unknowingly and more famously reinvented by John Banzhaf in 1965. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Banzhaf Voting Power Measure]

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