We analyze and evaluate the different decision rules describing the Council of Ministers of the EU starting from 1958 … 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 …

policymaking process of the European Union. Using simple game theory, the paper analyzes the working properties of the different … delegates some of its policymaking power to the Commission as part of Union legislation. We show how the balance of power is …

, 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 (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the …Power -- Voting -- The Measurement of Power -- Applications of Voting Power Measures -- Voting Power in the European …