A live experiment on approval voting

Experimental Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-105

  Laslier, Jean François ^a   Van Der Straeten, Karine ^b  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Approval voting; Experiments; French politics; Voting rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949184890     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-006-9149-6     Document Type: Article

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