Voting Power and Coalition Formation: The Case of the Council of the EU

René Levínský () and Peter Silarszki
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Peter Silarszki: CERGEI-EI, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education of Charles University and Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

No 56, East European Series from Institute for Advanced Studies

Abstract: In this paper we study the distribution of power in the Council of the European Union (EU). The goal of this paper is to evaluate the voting power of the member states after the entry of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The analysis is based on the Shapley-Shubik power index of simple cooperative games. Modified versions of the Shapley-Shubik index are used to analyse the influence of sub-systems of the EU on the distribution of power in the decision making process.

Keywords: EU Enlargement; EU Decision Making; A Priori Unions; Shapley; Value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 1998-03
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