This book is the first of its kind: a monograph devoted to a systematic critical examination
and exposition of the theory of a priori voting power. This important branch of social-choice …

In this fully revised second edition of a wellregarded and popular text, Patrick McNutt
presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public …

We investigate the application of the Shapley value to quantifying the contribution of a tuple
to a query answer. The Shapley value is a widely known numerical measure in cooperative …

Policy decisions in the European Union (EU) are often outcomes of intensive bargaining and
negotiation processes. The actors involved in the overall bargaining game are not only …

Power indices are general measures of the relative a priori voting power of individual
members of a voting body. They are useful for both positive and normative analysis of voting …

Literature on substate mobilization in Europe has provided some useful insights into the
factors and mechanisms sha** territorial interest representation in Brussels. Although …

In the beginning of 1995, the European Union (EU) has been enlarged by three countries:
Austria, Finland, and Sweden. In view of the implications on the EU's institutional balance …

If K is an index of relative voting power for simple voting games, the bicameral postulate
requires that the distribution of K-power within a voting assembly, as measured by the ratios …

Most decisions by the European Parliament are taken by an absolute majority of its
members. Some decisions however–such as the approval of the budget of the European …

Comment peut-on mesurer le pouvoir de vote des individus ou des groupes d'individus dans
un processus de décision collective? L'objet principal de ce texte est de recenser les …