Voting chances instead of voting weights
We study political distortions that emerge in situations where agents' political power is disproportionate with respect to their economic power. We use the Shapley value to evaluate both the economic and the political power. We show that usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political distortions from emerging in a huge mass of situations. Distortions are less severe if partners can leave the union at low cost. We propose an alternative voting method based on random assignments of voting rights. Agents are given chances to vote instead of weights. If chances are computed according to a speci?c formula, no political distortion occurs. As an application, we analyze the rotation voting system recently adopted by the European Central Bank. We ?nd that this system yields an enormous amount of political distortion. Then we compute the voting chances that should be assigned to Eurozone countries in order to eliminate it.
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2012-12
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Authors: | Giannatale, Paolo Di ; Passarelli, Francesco |
Institutions: | Università Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC) |
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