"It's the Challenger, Stupid!": Elections and the Theory of Rank-Order Tournaments
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Keywords
Tournament; Political Agency; Elections;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2007-11-10 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-DCM-2007-11-10 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-POL-2007-11-10 (Positive Political Economics)
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