"i pay enough taxes already!" applying economic voting models to environmental referendums

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1336-1355

  Bornstein, Nicholas ^a   Thalmann, Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 54749152127     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2008.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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