Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Voting System for the Council of European Union -- 1 Is the Double Majority Really Double? The Voting Rules in the Lisbon Treaty -- 2 Penrose's Square-Root Rule and the EU Council of Ministers: Significance of the Quota -- 3 Jagiellonian Compromise - An Alternative Voting System for the Council of the European Union -- 4 The Double Majority Voting Rule of the EU Reform Treaty as a Democratic Ideal for an Enlarging Union: An Appraisal Using Voting Power Analysis -- 5 The Blocking Power in Voting Systems -- 6 The Distribution of Power in the Council of Ministers of the European Union -- Part II Distribution of Power in the European Union -- 7 The Distribution of Power in the European Cluster Game -- 8 The Constitutional Power of Voters in the European Parliament -- 9 Decision Rules and Intergovernmentalism in the European Union -- 10 On the Relative Unimportance of Voting Weights: Observations on Agenda-Based Voting Procedures -- 11 Patterns of Voting in the Council of Ministers of the European Union. The Impact of the 2004 Enlargement -- 12 Decision-Making in the EU Council after the First Eastern Enlargement: The Relevance of the Empirical Findings for the Voting Rules -- Part III Allocation of Seats in the European Parliament -- 13 Degressive Proportionality: Composition of the European Parliament. The Parabolic Method -- 14 Putting Citizens First: Representation and Power in the European Union -- 15 Comparative Analysis of Several Methods for Determining the Composition of the European Parliament -- 16 On Bounds for Allocation of Seats in the European Parliament -- 17 Conclusions: The System of Equal Influence of the Citizens in the EU -- Index.