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Comparison of Weighted Voting Formulas for the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Hanna Newcombe ,
James Wert  and
Alan Newcombe
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If the United Nations is ever to assume the greater powers needed for effective peace-keeping and peace-making, the General Assembly and/or the Security Council will need an improved system of representation and voting. The present system of giving each country one vote in the General Assembly, regardless of the country's size, and of giving a veto in the Security Council to five big powers, is unrealistic and imperfect for many reasons, which need not be detailed here.

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World Politics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , April 1971 , pp. 452 - 492
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1971

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