Fairness and squareness: fair decision making rules in the EU Council?

František Turnovec ()

Operations Research and Decisions, 2009, vol. 19, issue 4, 110-124

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the following problem: assuming that the distribution of voting weights in a simple voting committee is fair (whatever this means), how should we set up a voting rule to guarantee that the distribution of influence (relative voting power) is as close as possible to relative voting weights.

Keywords: fairness; indirect voting power; Penrose–Banzhaf power index; optimal quota; Shapley–Shubik power index; simple voting committee; square root rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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