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The concept of fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups, such as national representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of European Union in 2004, was narrowed to proposal of...
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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...
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In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...
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aufgegriffen und angewandt. Kapitel 4 und 5 betreten Neuland, indem sie einen Machtindex für eine Entscheidungsumgebung einführen … Rat der Europäischen Union und dem Europäischen Parlament. Der relative Einfluss dieser Institutionen auf die legislative … Rahmens der EU ein. Die Erkenntnis, dass der Rat einflussreicher als das Parlament ist, erweist sich zwar als robust gegenüber …
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This paper examines how neutral the current EU decision-making procedures are to membership and how well they obey certain transparent general constitutional principles. The paper evaluates the performance of the procedures by strategic and classical power indices. The main emphasis in the...
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