| Article ID: | iaor2003346 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 117 |
| End Page Number: | 131 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Journal: | Journal of Information & Optimization Sciences |
| Authors: | Nakai Teruhisa |
We consider a simple game with multialternatives, in which each player votes only one alternative and a winning alternative is only one. Since more than two coalitions may be formed simultaneously, its characteristic function must be defined on not only a coalition but also a division of the set of voters. We propose a new power index denoting the influence of each player upon a collective decision making and show an axioms system on which it is based.