Modeling the influence of polls on elections: A population dynamics approach

Public Choice

Volumn 140, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 395-420

  Restrepo, Juan M ^a   Rael, Rosalyn C ^a   Hyman, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head to head; Landslide; Polling; Sequential voting; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350023386     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9427-x     Document Type: Article

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