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- Title
DIMENSION, EGALITARIANISM AND DECISIVENESS OF EUROPEAN VOTING SYSTEMS.
- Authors
CARRERAS, Francesc; FREIXAS, Josep; MAGAÑA, Antonio
- Abstract
An analysis of three major aspects has been carried out that may apply to any of the successive voting systems used for the European Union Council of Ministers, from the first one established in the Treaty of Rome in 1958 to the current one established in Lisbon. We mainly consider the voting systems designed for the enlarged European Union adopted in the Athens summit, held in April 2003 but this analysis can be applied to any other system. First, it is shown that the dimension of these voting systems does not, in general, reduce. Next, the egalitarian effects of superposing two or three weighted majority games (often by introducing additional consensus) are considered. Finally, the decisiveness of these voting systems is evaluated and compared.
- Subjects
EUROPE; ELECTRONIC voting; COUNCIL of the European Union; VOTING machines; VOTING; EQUALITY policy; POLLING places
- Publication
Operations Research & Decisions, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
2081-8858
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5277/ord160203