The selection of policies for ballot initiatives: What voters can learn from legislative inaction

Economics and Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-121

  Boehmke, Frederick J ^a   Patty, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGISLATION; MODEL; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 33847245364     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: 14680343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2007.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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