tools from voting game theory. We find that only the ‘dual simple majority’ plan maintains decision-making efficiency and …This Paper contributes ideas and analysis to the ongoing EU reform debate. It consists of three distinct parts: voting …” dates. The IGC currently focuses on Council voting, Commission composition, closer co-operation and the range of issues to …

This Paper studies some of the many options facing EU leaders when choosing a viable voting system for the EU25+. It … provides quantitative estimates of the efficiency and power distributions of the various EU voting schemes that are being … considered. It also provides intuition on how various aspects of voting rules affect decision-making efficiency and the implied …

systematic violation of expected utility theory. We propose a model in which a well-known failure of expected utility – captured … connection between two well-known behavioural regularities, one in individual decision theory and another in the social …

have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for … leaders and when they take place anonymously in a competitive market. The theory has strong predictions. In both cases …

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy … and the market generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough. We test the …

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision … alternative Council voting rules: those accepted in the Treaty of Nice and implemented by the Accession Treaty of ten 2004 …