The politics of precommitment with electoral uncertainty and transaction costs

Economics and Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-84

  Gradstein, Mark ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0346495009     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.1996.tb00122.x     Document Type: Article

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