subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist … designed to be considered in the same time fair and efficient, and in analysing how close this voting power ideal type …The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity …

up to date. Most of the existing studies use the Banzhaf index (for binary voting) or the Shapley-Shubik index (for … 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 …

rules that give voters more positive and negative votes. We identify strict voting equilibria of several alternative rules … as approval voting and combined approval-disapproval voting only replicate the electoral outcomes of plurality …

We experimentally investigate information aggregation through majority voting when some voters are biased. In such … situations, majority voting can have a "dark side", that is, result in groups making choices inferior to those made by … a minority of voters are biased, but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the success of policy …

Voting procedures focus on the aggregation of individuals' preferences to produce collective decisions. In practice, a … voting procedure is characterized by ballot responses and the way ballots are tallied to determine winners. Voters are … ballot responses. Such responses can include strategic misrepresentation of preferences. Voting procedures are formalized by …

people behind the veil of ignorance prefer voting systems following the rule of proportional Shapley-Shubik power; in front …There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting …

This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction … assessment of Luxembourg's voting power is sensitive to the role played by the European Commission in the decision … voting power indices can capture. …

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

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …