ABSTRACT

Leading global experts in the field of politics and mathematics bring forth key insights on how voting power should be allocated between EU member states, and what the policy consequences are of any given institutional design. Close attention is paid to the practical implications of decision-making rules, the nature and distribution of power, and the most equitable ways to represent the preoccupations of European citizens both in the Council and European Parliament. Highly theoretical and methodologically advanced, this volume is set to enrich the debate on the future of the EU's institutional design. A valuable source of information to scholars of political science, European studies and law, as well as to people working on game theory, theory of voting and, in general, applications of mathematics to social science.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

part I|91 pages

Voting System for the Council of European Union

chapter 2|8 pages

Penrose's Square-Root Rule and the EU Council of Ministers

Significance of the Quota

part II|103 pages

Distribution of Power in the European Union

chapter 10|10 pages

On the Relative Unimportance of Voting Weights

Observations on Agenda-Based Voting Procedures 1

chapter 11|20 pages

Patterns of Voting in the Council of Ministers of the European Union

The Impact of the 2004 Enlargement

chapter 12|12 pages

Decision-Making in the EU Council after the First Eastern Enlargement

The Relevance of the Empirical Findings for the Voting Rules

part III|79 pages

Allocation of Seats in the European Parliament

chapter 13|20 pages

Degressive Proportionality

Composition of the European Parliament. The Parabolic Method

chapter 14|20 pages

Putting Citizens First

Representation and Power in the European Union

chapter 17|10 pages

Conclusions

The System of Equal Influence of the Citizens in the EU – The Polish Proposal Submitted During the 2007 Reform Treaty Negotiations