This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are … design of Council voting rules has required so much bargaining and cumbersome marathon negotiations …

conditional on the entire voting profile, such a 'transnational lobby' can veto any proposal at no cost. If contributions are …

on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also …, however, they have to coordinate their voting and become a more coherent voting group than they are now. …

apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to … passive reaction to idiosyncratic national economic shocks. A perfect match between economic size and voting rights is rarely …

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 investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …

therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations …

We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous … relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in voting and a transitory drop in overall turnout by 0 … forgo voting today and turn to mail-in voting in ensuing elections. The drop in participation is stronger in precincts with …

conditional on the entire voting profile, such a 'transnational lobby' can veto any proposal at no cost. If contributions are …