The Economics of Split-Ticket Voting in Representative Democracies

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 957-976

  Chari, V V ^a   Jones, Larry E ^b   Marimon, Ramon ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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