Testing the Median Voter Model and Moving Beyond its Limits: Do Characteristics of Politicians Matter?
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Keywords
Constituents' Preferences; Median Voter Model; Political Economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2013-08-31 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2013-08-31 (Positive Political Economics)
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