Who are the expressive voters?

Public Choice

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 179-189

  Drinkwater, Stephen ^a   Jennings, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expressiveness; Extremists; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547330241     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9141-x     Document Type: Article

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