population of the supporting member states. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index we calculate the member states' powers with and … we look at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Since the Lisbon treaty the … without the United Kingdom and update earlier power forecasts using the Eurostat's latest population projections. There is a …

. For normalised indices strategic rejection may increase power. Our notion of a strategic power index is well defined if … power is measured by an index that takes only minimal winning coalitions into account. …Power indices have been used to evaluate the allocation of power in a wide range of voting situations. While they use …

by Penrose-Banzhaf index of voting power. In this paper we attempt to clarify this concept. -- Council of Ministers … ; indirect voting power ; Penrose-Banzhaf power index ; Shapley-Shubik power index ; square root rule ; simple voting game … square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured …

and 5 step on new ground by introducing a power index for a decision environment that has not been formalized before. More …This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction … in Chapter 1, several established concepts for power analysis are reviewed and applied in Chapters 2 and 3. Chapters 4 …

algorithms for the three most common power indices with precoalitions, i.e., the Owen index, the Banzhaf-Owen index and the …We study the efficient computation of power indices for weighted voting games with precoalitions amongst subsets of … symmetric coalitional Banzhaf index, and point out why our new algorithms are applicable for large numbers of players. We …

Power index research has been a very active field over the past few decades. Will this continue or have all important … questions been solved? We argue that there are still many opportunities to conduct useful research with and on power indices …