Do voters vote ideologically?

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1868-1894

  Degan, Arianna ^a,b   Merlo, Antonio ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CIRPEE ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Falsifiability; Spatial models; Testing; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249103913     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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