04082nam 2200637Ia 450 991045987720332120200520144314.01-317-11581-31-317-11580-51-282-77385-297866127738530-7546-9496-8(CKB)2670000000043998(EBL)581322(OCoLC)694729122(SSID)ssj0000458591(PQKBManifestationID)12173637(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458591(PQKBWorkID)10457005(PQKB)10148850(MiAaPQ)EBC581322(PPN)159684293(Au-PeEL)EBL581322(CaPaEBR)ebr10411936(CaONFJC)MIL924978(EXLCZ)99267000000004399820100325d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInstitutional design and voting power in the European Union[electronic resource] /edited by Marek A. Cichocki and Karol ŻyczkowskiFarnham, Surrey ;Burlington, VT Ashgatec20101 online resource (323 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-7754-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Voti5 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 Enlargement12 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; IndexFrom 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.VotingEuropean Union countriesEuropean Union countriesPolitics and governmentElectronic books.Voting324.6094Życzkowski Karol1960-882409Cichocki Marek A882410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459877203321Institutional design and voting power in the European Union1970951UNINA