Alternative pasts: a study of weighted voting at the United Nations

Hanna Newcombe, Christopher Young and Elia Sinaiko

International Organization, 1977, vol. 31, issue 3, 579-586

Abstract: Weighted voting at the UN has been suggested for various reasons: (1) to overcome the problems of the mini-states now being admitted, with one vote just as the very large states have; (2) to prevent voting in the General Assembly from swinging any further in the anti-West, anti-Israel direction; (3) to satisfy the requirements of democratic justice: i.e., “one person-one vote,” not “one nation-one vote”; and, (4) to reflect more realistically the distribution of power among nations.

Date: 1977
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