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social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > representation and electoral systems > qualified majority voting
... > social science subjects > psychology > social psychology > group dynamics > group influence > power (sociology) > decisions and game theory > qualified majority voting

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qualified majority voting  

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  • Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) is the official European Union (EU) term for the decision rule employed by its Council of Ministers (CM) for most of its decisions. Basically, QMV is a weighted decision rule: each EU member state is assigned a weight (a number of votes); and for a bill to pass, the total weight of the member states voting for it must equal or exceed a set quota (also known as the threshold), constituting a specified supermajority of the member states' votes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Qualified Majority Voting]

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