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 …

classical power indices. The main emphasis in the assessment is in stability, efficiency and fairness. The paper concludes that …

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 …

Power -- Voting -- The Measurement of Power -- Applications of Voting Power Measures -- Voting Power in the European …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 …

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 …