Public information and electoral bias

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 353-375

  Taylor, Curtis R ^a   Yildirim, Huseyin ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costly voting; Electoral bias; Public information

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049124558     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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