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As Miles Kahler has stated, the fact that states ‘bitterly contest voting rules’ implies that states care greatly about them and how they operate in practice. This is the first of three chapters that explore in detail the idealtype decision–making processes of consensus intergovernmentalism, majoritarianism and privilege- granting. Inis Claude identifies these as the three primary competing principles for the making of decisions in IR.
Voting systems, once central in the study of international organizations, have been regarded as superfluous in most recent analyses of international institutions. … The fact that governments bitterly contest voting rules suggests that these institutional devices are more important than currently scholarly opinion allows.
–Kahler 1992: 703
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Kissack, R. (2010). Majoritarianism in Multilateral Institutions. In: Pursuing Effective Multilateralism. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281974_2
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