Electoral Design and Voter Welfare from the U.S. Senate: Evidence from a Dynamic Selection Model
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Term limits; Incumbency advantage; Elections; Selection; Tenure; Senate;All these keywords.
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- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
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