Institutional design and voting power in the European Union

Table of Contents: “…Hosli -- On the relative unimportance of voting weights : observations on agenda-based voting procedures / Hannu Nurmi -- Patterns of voting in the council of ministers of the European Union : the impact of the 2004 enlargement / Rafal Trzaskowski -- Decision-making in the EU Council after the first eastern enlargement : the relevance of the empirical findings for the voting rules / Běla Plechanovová -- Degressive proportionality : composition of the European parliament. the parabolic method / Victoriano Ramírez González -- Putting citizens first : representation and power in the European Union / Friedrich Pukelsheim -- Comparative analysis of several methods for determining the composition of the European parliament / José Martínez Aroza and Victoriano Ramírez González -- On bounds for allocation of seats in the European parliament / Wojciech Słomczyński and Karol Życzkowski -- Conclusions : the system of equal influence of the citizens in the EU-the Polish proposal submitted during the 2007 reform treaty negotiations / Marek A. …”