Institutional design and voting power in the European Union [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marek A. Cichocki and Karol Życzkowski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785162703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010
• ISBN: 1-315-58884-6; 1-317-11581-3; 1-317-11580-5; 1-282-77385-2; 9786612773853; 0-7546-9496-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ŻyczkowskiKarol <1960->; CichockiMarek A
• Disciplina: 324.6094
• Soggetti: Voting - European Union countries; European Union countries Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I Voting System for the Council of European Union; 1 Is the Double Majority Really Double? The Voting Rules in the Lisbon Treaty; 2 Penrose's Square-Root Rule and the EU Council of Ministers: Significance of the Quota; 3 Jagiellonian Compromise - An Alternative Voting System for the Council of the European Union; 4 The Double Majority Voting Rule of the EU Reform Treaty as a Democratic Ideal for an Enlarging Union: An Appraisal Using Voti; 5 The Blocking Power in Voting Systems6 The Distribution of Power in the Council of Ministers of the European Union; Part II Distribution of Power in the European Union; 7 The Distribution of Power in the European Cluster Game; 8 The Constitutional Power of Voters in the European Parliament; 9 Decision Rules and Intergovernmentalism in the European Union; 10 On the Relative Unimportance of Voting Weights: Observations on Agenda-Based Voting Procedures; 11 Patterns of ; Voting in the Council of Ministers of the European Union. The Impact of the 2004 Enlargement; 12 Decision-Making in the EU Council after the First Eastern Enlargement: The Relevance of the Empirical Findings for the VotinPart III Allocation of Seats in the European Parliament; 13 Degressive Proportionality: Composition of the European Parliament. The Parabolic Method; 14 Putting Citizens First: Representation and Power in the European Union; 15 Comparative Analysis of Several Methods for Determining the Composition of the European Parliament; 16 On Bounds for Allocation of Seats in the European Parliament; 17 Conclusions: The System of Equal Influence of the Citizens in the EU; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From leading global experts in the fields of politics and mathematics comes this thoughtful analysis of the nature and distribution of power within the European Union and the practical implications of the current institutional design on its members. A valuable resource for scholars of political science, European studies and law, as well as to those working on game theory, theory of voting, and applications of mathematics to social science.