We analyze the ECB Governing Council's voting procedures. The literature has by now discussed numerous aspects of the … rotation model but does not account for many institutional aspects of the voting procedure of the GC. Using the randomization …

We analyze the ECB Governing Council’s voting procedures. The literature has by now discussed numerous aspects of the … rotation model but does not account for many institutional aspects of the voting procedure of the GC. Using the randomization …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …