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Preferred term
power to initiate action and power to prevent action
Definition
- These terms, which pertain to the general topic of voting power measures, were introduced by James S. Coleman in 1971. Coleman observed that the most commonly used measure of voting power at the time, the Shapley-Shubik power index, is based on cooperative game theory and assumes that players seek to form a winning coalition whose members divide up some fixed pot of spoils. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Power To Initiate Action And Power To Prevent Action]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/power_to_initiate_action_and_power_to_prevent_action
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