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Penrose Voting Power Measure  

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  • Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898–1972) was a British mathematician, statistician, psychiatrist, and geneticist. Although his main research work was in genetics and psychiatry, he also investigated the principles on which an ideal two-tier representative system should be based. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Penrose Voting Power Measure]

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