Fairness and squareness: fair decision making rules in the eu council?

In this paper we analyze the following problem: assuming that the distribution of voting weights in a simple voting committee is fair (whatever this means), how should we set up a voting rule to guarantee that the distribution of influence (relative voting power) is as close as possible to relative voting weights.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Turnovec, Frantisek
Published in:	Operations Research and Decisions. - Wydział Informatyki i Zarządzania. - Vol. 4.2009, p. 110-124
Publisher:	Wydział Informatyki i Zarządzania
Subject:	fairness \| indirect voting power \| Penrose–Banzhaf power index \| optimal quota \| Shapley–Shubik power index \| simple voting committee \| square root rule

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Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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