Gould, M. and Rablen, M.D. orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-096X (2017) Reform of the United Nations Security Council: Equity and Efficiency. Public Choice (173). pp. 145-168. ISSN 0048-5829
Abstract
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is critical to global peace and security, yet more than twenty years of negotiations over its reform have proved fruitless. We use recent advances in the theory of a priori voting power to present a formal quantitative appraisal of the implications for democratic equity and efficiency of the “structural reforms” contained within eleven current reform proposals, as well as the separate effect of expansion of the UNSC membership. Only one reform proposal – a weakening of the veto power for Permanent Members by requiring two negative votes for a veto to be constituted – robustly dominates the status quo against our measures of equity and efficiency. Several proposed structural reforms may actually worsen the issues they ostensibly claim to resolve.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication. s This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | United Nations; United Nations Security Council; United Nations Security Council reform; equity; efficiency; voting power; square-root rule |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2017 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2023 15:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0468-2 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11127-017-0468-2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118365 |
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