Ignoring the Electoral College: why public choice economists understate the probability of decisive voters
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Keywords
Electoral College; Decisive voters; Decisive states; Expressive voting; Binomial distributions;All these keywords.
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- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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