CNRS: Union power may not erode

Sources of Labour Union Power

It is beyond contention that the power of organised labour in Britain has witnessed a marked fall in the last thirty years. Attempts to rebuild that powerbase in a world of neo-liberal globalisation and the ascendancy of employer power means that it is time to go back to basics to try to understand the theoretical sources of labour union power. Using a simple three-fold schema developed by Eric...

Nuclear power Nuclear power in the Soviet Union

Even though the Soviet Union is a large industrial state which bases its economic development on its own mineral fuel resources, it cannot afford to neglect the development of nuclear power, because about 80% of its energy resources are concentrated in eastern regions of the country, while 75% of the population and consumers of power are concentrated in the European part of the USSR. The transp...

Power distribution in the European Union

The Treaty of Lisbon, the latest treaty governing law-making in the European Union (EU), was ratified in 2009 and goes fully into effect in 2014. This treaty, with its change to voting procedures in the Council of Ministers, claims to make decision-making in the EU more democratic and more efficient. Since the EU serves as an economic and political entity, we will assess these claims by compari...

Voting power in the European Union enlargement

The Shapley-Shubik power index in a voting situation depends on the number of orderings in which each player is pivotal. The Banzhaf power index depends on the number of ways in which each voter can e¤ect a swing. If there are n players in a voting situation, then the function which measures the worst case running time for computing these indices is in O (n2) : We present a combinatorial method...

There Is Power in a Union