Are qualified majority rules special?

Public Choice ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shmuel Nitzan ◽  
Jacob Paroush
Keyword(s):  
Qualified Majority ◽  
Majority Rules

Monotonicity and qualified majority rules

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-220
Author(s):  
Uuganbaatar Ninjbat
Keyword(s):  
Qualified Majority ◽  
Majority Rules

scholarly journals Self-Enforcing Voting in International Organizations

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1137-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Maggi ◽  
Massimo Morelli
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Comparative Statics ◽  
Widespread Occurrence ◽  
Unanimity Rule ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Qualified Majority ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Majority Rules ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms ◽  
Voting Models

Some international organizations are governed by unanimity rule, others by (simple or qualified) majority rules. Standard voting models, which assume that the decisions made by voting are perfectly enforceable, have a hard time explaining the observed variation in governance mode, and in particular the widespread occurrence of the unanimity system. We present a model whose main departure from standard voting models is that the organization cannot rely on external enforcement mechanisms: each country is sovereign and cannot be forced to comply with the collective decision or, in other words, the voting system must be self-enforcing. The model identifies conditions under which the organization adopts the unanimity rule, and yields rich comparative-statics predictions on the determinants of the mode of governance.

Majority shareholder protection by variable qualified majority rules

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Casajus ◽  
Helfried Labrenz ◽  
Tobias Hiller
Keyword(s):  
Shareholder Protection ◽  
Qualified Majority ◽  
Majority Rules ◽  
Majority Shareholder

The Revision Acetabulum: Dealing With Bone Loss: Cementless Socket Revision: The Majority Rules

Orthopedics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 967-968
Author(s):  
Aaron G Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Bone Loss ◽  
Majority Rules

Flexible Majority Rules for Central Banks

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Gersbach ◽  
Bernhard Pachl
Keyword(s):  
Central Banks ◽  
Majority Rules

scholarly journals The dynamics of public opinion under majority rules

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Ianni ◽  
Valentina Corradi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Majority Rules

Self-Assembly of Chiral Propeller-like Supermolecules with Unusual “Sergeants-and-Soldiers” and “Majority-Rules” Effects

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 754-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Nie ◽  
Tian-Guang Zhan ◽  
Tian-You Zhou ◽  
Ze-Yun Xiao ◽  
Guo-Fang Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Majority Rules

Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der EU-Sozialpolitik: effizientere Entscheidungsfindung durch Mehrheitsentscheidungen und differenzierte Integration?

IG ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Miriam Hartlapp
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Member State ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Qualified Majority ◽  
Differentiated Integration ◽  
Aktuelle Entwicklungen ◽  
Organizational Heterogeneity

Design and adoption of common social policy is conditional. Limited competencies, institutional and organizational heterogeneity among member states, and ideological-programmatic majorities in the institutions of the European Union (EU) have led to far fewer new legal instruments in recent decades. One of the key challenges is the unanimity requirement in the Council, enshrined in the Treaties in areas of great member state sovereignty. In 2019 the Commission proposed to allow a transition to qualified majority voting. This paper discusses what the transition entails in legal and procedural terms and highlights three key advantages it holds. To this aim it provides an overview of the policy areas and instruments that the Commission would like to transfer to qualified majority voting. It outlines how the potential that majority voting offers for EU social policy could be exploited better with more ambitious initiatives and discusses differentiated integration as an alternative.

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