The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity … this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when … subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist …

This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction … Economic Community (EEC) with a more comprehensive picture of Luxembourg's role in EEC's voting system. It turns out that the … assessment of Luxembourg's voting power is sensitive to the role played by the European Commission in the decision …

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. …

up to date. Most of the existing studies use the Banzhaf index (for binary voting) or the Shapley-Shubik index (for … earlier stages of the EU within a restricted domain of voting rules, and conclude that Germany should receive more than the … other three large countries under the optimal voting rule …