Voting for a lottery

Public Finance Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-100

  Giacopassi, David ^a,c   Nichols, Mark W ^b   Stitt, B Grant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent demand; Lottery; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444454812     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142105282598     Document Type: Article

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