Rational expectations or heuristics?: Strategic voting in proportional representation systems

Party Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-49

  Lago, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Multi member districts; Rational expectations; Spain; Strategic voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849052399     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068807083822     Document Type: Article

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