Article ID: | iaor20052227 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 156 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 415 |
End Page Number: | 419 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Freixas J. |
Keywords: | game theory |
In this note it is proved that the European Union enlargement voting system under two different decision rules (simple majority of countries or qualified majority of 2/3) adopted in the Nice European summit, held in December 2000, has exactly dimension 3. This result clarifies that these voting systems cannot realize either as a weighted voting system or as the interaction of two weighted voting systems and, therefore, it is useful to prove the existence of well-known real voting systems of dimension 3.