Why people vote: Experimental evidence

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 417-442

  Schram, Arthur ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experiment; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030210156     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-4870(96)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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