Policy-specific alienation and indifference in the calculus of voting: A simultaneous model of party choice and abstention

Public Choice

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 51-77

  Thurner, Paul W ^a   Eymann, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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