Expert-Captured Democracies
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- Archishman Chakraborty & Parikshit Ghosh & Jaideep Roy, 2019. "Expert Captured Democracies," Working papers 299, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
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- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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