Public employees lining up at the polls-the conditional effect of living and working in the same municipality

Public Choice

Volumn 156, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 611-629

  Bhatti, Yosef ^a   Hansen, Kasper M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bureaucrats; Private employees; Public choice; Public employees; Turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880514912     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-012-9919-y     Document Type: Article

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