Assignment of weights to the member states of the European Union in order to model their relative power positions

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 301-313

  Lootsma, Freerk A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

allocation criteria; geometric means; logarithmic regression; qualified majority voting; relative power; salience of issues; weight elicitation; weighted judgement

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644260665     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GRUP.0000042860.57065.d0     Document Type: Article

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