The relief of Vienna in vain. Assessing the Implications of Turkish EU-membership for Council of Ministers’ Decision-making. IES WORKING PAPER 1/2011

This research forecasts the implications of Turkish membership for decision-making effectiveness and dynamics within the Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU). Effectiveness is determined in this research by 'passage probability': the chance that a random proposal as put forth by the European Commission (EC) is accepted by the Council of Ministers. Dynamics are determined by means of the Shapley-Shubik Index (SSI), which plots power values of individual member states by forecasting a number of possible EU enlargement scenarios. This study falsifies earlier research by Baldwin and Widgrén.1 It finds that the implications of Turkish EU-membership for EU decision-making efficiency are ambiguous and depend on the number of other candidate states entering the EU alongside Turkey, as well as the timeslot - 2014 or 2020 - at which the accession would take place. Moreover, this study asserts that Turkish EU-accession would result in unequal- but generally negative - power changes among other EU member states, although member states with similar demographic weight will experience comparable changes. Finally, it appears that the larger a EU member state is, the more power it loses if Turkey would join the EU.

Laws and ordinances of the Common council of the city of Schenectady, passed since 1st June, 1833. To which are prefixed an act, entitled, "An act relative to the city of Schenectady", passed April 29, 1833, and other acts and parts of acts relating to the said city.

"Names of the mayors of the city of Schenectady, from the incorporation of said city to the present time, and the periods of their continuance in office respectively, with the name of the recorder appointed for said city, under the act of April 29, 1833": p. 2.

Atlas of Illinois Resources.

Succeeds Illinois resources, published in 1944 by the Illinois Post-War Planning Commission.

The inflammability of Illinois coal dusts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Geological survey of Illinois.

A.H. Worthen, director.

Pavement rehabilitation : proceedings of a Workshop : Final report, June 1974 : Prepared for Federal Highway Administration, Offices of Research and Development /

Cover title.

Pennsylvanian spores of Illinois and their use in correlation / by Robert M. Kosanke.

"Manuscript completed in August 1948."

Pennsylvanian ostracodes of Illinois.

"References": p. 124-126.

Municipal water supplies of Illinois,

Illinois. University. Bulletin, v. 5, no. 7.

Story of Illinois series.

Mode of access: Internet.

Geological Survey of Illinois,

Vol. 8 edited by Josua Lindahl, state geologist.

Report of Illinois Good Roads Commission to the forty-fourth General Assembly.

Mode of access: Internet.

University of Illinois; survey report

Mode of access: Internet.

Study of sulfur behavior and removal during thermal desulfurization of Illinois coals /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 25).

A distributional check list of the birds of Illinois,

"A joint project of the Illinois Audubon society and the Illinois state museum."