Power indices have been used to evaluate the allocation of power in a wide range of voting situations. While they use … the language of game theory known measures of a priori voting power are hardly more than statistical expectations assuming …. For normalised indices strategic rejection may increase power. Our notion of a strategic power index is well defined if …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …

we look at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Since the Lisbon treaty the … population of the supporting member states. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index we calculate the member states' powers with and … without the United Kingdom and update earlier power forecasts using the Eurostat's latest population projections. There is a …