Voting blocs, party discipline and party formation

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-135

  Eguia, Jon X ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Party discipline; Party formation; Voting blocs; Voting rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961021327     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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