voting power gradient of Member States computed by the Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf indices. Given the lack of compelling … Straffin (1977) focusing on the probability distribution of voting poll outcomes. We present a unifying model of power indices … is shown. -- voting power indices ; power gradient ; coefficient of representation ; expected decisiveness ; efficiency …

for decision making. To gauge if European Parliament (EP) and Council of Ministers (CM) are equally powerful codecision … CM are assumed to have spatial preferences determined by their respective internal decision mechanisms. Applying … bargaining theory to predict inter-institutional agreements in the Conciliation Committee, it turns out that although …