Weighted voting, abstention, and multiple levels of approval

Social Choice and Welfare

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-431

  Freixas, Josep ^a   Zwicker, William S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0242459053     PISSN: 01761714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00355-003-0212-3     Document Type: Article

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