Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - 2006
past EU budget allocations (in EU-15) can be attributed to measures of the distribution of voting power in the Council of … Ministers deciding on the bulk of EU spending. A standard power measure alone can explain about 85% of the variance of the past … EU budget shares, while, if stable coalition patterns among member countries are taken into account, power can explain at …