A committee is choosing between two alternatives. If the required supermajority is not reached, voting is repeated …. If a supermajority is required instead, the power to select the outcome moves from the median voter to the more extreme … supermajorities. Even if unanimity is a bad voting rule, voting rules close to unanimity may be efficient. The more likely it is to …

executive (President) are riddled with voting paradoxes. Superior to a single vote are some methods with preference orderings …

) for the voting in the Council of Ministers of the EU. In our evaluation we are using an a priori voting power methodology …

different rules and the interaction of different voting bodies. However, research on European Integration concentrates on the … choice rather within than of rules. Relative voting power analyses stress the distributional consequences of different voting … the constitutional choice of different procedural settings. Whereas relative voting power analysis disregards the …

We present a simplified model of the evolution of a society which is regulated by a formal unanimity voting procedure … they are implemented. Conditions which ensure the existence of pure-strategy perfect equilibrium profiles for some voting …