Badinger, Harald; Mühlböck, Monika; Nindl, Elisabeth; … - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 158-176
This paper investigates whether preference-based (empirical) power indices differ significantly from their preference-free (theoretical) counterparts. Drawing on the most comprehensive sample of EU Council votes to date (1993–2011), we use item-response models to estimate the EU27 member...