The possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union will have profound economic and political effects. Here we look at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Since the Lisbon treaty the exit does not require new negotiations as the success...

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 and 5 step on new ground by introducing a power index for a...

The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution...

ECJ direct tax cases and domestic constitutional principles: an overview / Claudio Sacchetto -- Double taxation and EC law / Michael Lang -- Nondiscrimination from the perspective of the OECD model and the EC treaty: structural and conceptual issues / Kees van Raad -- The US Supreme Court's...