Geographical redistribution with disproportional representation: A politico-economic model of Norwegian road projects

Public Choice

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 5-19

  Helland, Leif ^a   Sørensen, Rune J ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Distributive politics; Game theory; Infrastructure investments; Party competition; Proportional representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949088851     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9373-z     Document Type: Article

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