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Policy Insight 5: Pandora's (Ballot) Box: Can the Constitution voting rules be improved?

The German Presidency wants to avoid discussion of voting rules in the new treaty, but the rules in the Constitution were agreed in a crisis atmosphere in 2004. Excluding discussion and analysis is not the way to get them right.

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Baldwin, R and M Widgren (2007), Policy Insight 5: Pandora's (Ballot) Box: Can the Constitution voting rules be improved?, CEPR Policy Insight No 5, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/policy-insight-5-pandoras-ballot-box-can-constitution-voting-rules-be-improved