LEADER 04080nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910785162703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-315-58884-6 010 $a1-317-11581-3 010 $a1-317-11580-5 010 $a1-282-77385-2 010 $a9786612773853 010 $a0-7546-9496-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000043998 035 $a(EBL)581322 035 $a(OCoLC)694729122 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458591 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12173637 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458591 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10457005 035 $a(PQKB)10148850 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581322 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10411936 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL924978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581322 035 $a(PPN)159684293 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000043998 100 $a20100325d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInstitutional design and voting power in the European Union$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Marek A. Cichocki and Karol Z?yczkowski 210 $aFarnham, Surrey ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (323 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-7754-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a5 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 327 $a12 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 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aVoting$zEuropean Union countries 607 $aEuropean Union countries$xPolitics and government 615 0$aVoting 676 $a324.6094 701 $aZ?yczkowski$b Karol$f1960-$01533536 701 $aCichocki$b Marek A$01533537 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785162703321 996 $aInstitutional design and voting power in the European Union$93780577 997 $aUNINA