Fair allocation and re-weighting of votes and voting power in the eu before and after the next enlargement

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 433-449

  Sutter, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Banzhaf index; Collective decision making; European integration; Voting power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039251117     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951692800012004004     Document Type: Article

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