Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as …

This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction … Economic Community (EEC) with a more comprehensive picture of Luxembourg's role in EEC's voting system. It turns out that the … assessment of Luxembourg's voting power is sensitive to the role played by the European Commission in the decision …

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …

We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic … a costly voting framework, we show that large electorates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with … high probability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting …

The new voting system of the Council of the European Union cannot be represented as the intersection of six or fewer … weighted games, i.e., its dimension is at least 7. This sets a new record for real-world voting bodies. A heuristic combination …

Which voting weights ought to be allocated to single delegates of differently sized groups from a democratic fairness …

The author proposes a two-round process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first … voting rights for the second round, in which the financing scheme is determined. In the second round, the unanimity rule or … voting and simple majority voting and outline the research program. -- …

We propose a two-stage process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first period, a … rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process continues, but only the members of the minority keep agenda and voting rights … majority rule is applied. We provide a first round of relative welfare comparisons between minority voting and simple majority …