Social identity and voting behavior

Public Choice

Volumn 151, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 193-214

  Ben Bassat, Avi ^a,b   Dahan, Momi ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b The Israel Democracy Institute   (Israel)

Author keywords

Local elections; Paradox of voting; Social identity; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755189786     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-010-9742-2     Document Type: Article

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