David and Goliath in the Poll Booth: Group Size, Voting Power and Voter Turnout
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Keywords
Voter turnout; power; group size; merger; gerrymandering;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- 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
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-07-04 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2015-07-04 (Positive Political Economics)
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