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15/Mar/2016
Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros, Mariana Hipólito Ramos Mota, Isabel Meunier
DOI: 10.1590/1981-38212016000100001
This article analyzes the role of Mercosur’s Parliament within Mercosur’s institutional design and decision-making process by associating its institutional arrangements to potential outcomes over representativeness. Generally, it discusses how representative Mercosur’s chosen mechanism for ruling seats in its Parliament, the so-called “citizen representation”, is and how that might affect coordination trends and solutions concerning political conflicts. Hence, the article investigates such mechanism in terms of its consequences for representativeness. The method relies on a Game Theoretical perspective through the application […]
Keywords: Banzhaf Index; institutions; Mercosur Parliament; representativeness