Vote buying:Legislatures and lobbying

Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-128

  Dekel, Eddie ^a,b   Jackson, Matthew O ^c,d   Wolinsky, Asher ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Keyword Vote buying; Legislatures; Lobbying; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949122325     PISSN: 15540626     EISSN: 15540634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/100.00008063     Document Type: Article

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