Retirement and Social Security in a Probabilistic Voting Model

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 331-348

  Profeta, Paola ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endogenous ideological homogeneity; Merit goods; Multidimensional voting; Political economy; Single mindedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347616584     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016539016693     Document Type: Article

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