up to date. Most of the existing studies use the Banzhaf index (for binary voting) or the Shapley-Shubik index (for … distributive politics). We argue in favor of the nucleolus as a power measure in distributive situations and an alternative to the … measures. In the second part, we analyze the power of the European citizens as measured by the nucleolus under the egalitarian …

This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction … assessment of Luxembourg's voting power is sensitive to the role played by the European Commission in the decision … voting power indices can capture. …

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 of a voting initiative only depends on the number and total … population of the supporting member states. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index we calculate the member states' powers with and …

at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index …, we calculate the member states' powers with and without the United Kingdom and update earlier power forecasts using the … Eurostat's latest population projections. There is a remarkably sharp relation between population size and the change in power …

In many organizations, decisions are taken by unanimity giving each member veto power. We analyze a model of an … incomplete charter, the threat of forming an "inner organization" can undermine the veto power of the less efficient members and …. -- organizations ; club good ; voting rules ; EU integration …

Politics in the Council is Janus-faced. There is bargaining with identifiable winners and losers, yet the voting … theoretical models of voting typically assume that actors’ behavior is guided by their positions relative to the proposal and the … status quo. By combining positional data and voting data, we evaluate to what extent voting is driven by salience …