Electoral rules, forms of government and redistributive policy: Evidence from agriculture and food policies

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 141-158

  Olper, Alessandro ^a,b   Raimondi, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b LICOS Centre for Institution and Economic Performance   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agriculture and food policy; Electoral rules; Forms of government; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875270340     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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