This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction … in Chapter 1, several established concepts for power analysis are reviewed and applied in Chapters 2 and 3. Chapters 4 … and 5 step on new ground by introducing a power index for a decision environment that has not been formalized before. More …

we look at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Since the Lisbon treaty the … population of the supporting member states. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index we calculate the member states' powers with and … without the United Kingdom and update earlier power forecasts using the Eurostat's latest population projections. There is a …

subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist … designed to be considered in the same time fair and efficient, and in analysing how close this voting power ideal type …

at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index …, we calculate the member states' powers with and without the United Kingdom and update earlier power forecasts using the … Eurostat's latest population projections. There is a remarkably sharp relation between population size and the change in power …

an additional country affects the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. We inspect the power indices …

classical power indices. The main emphasis in the assessment is in stability, efficiency and fairness. The paper concludes that …