Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections
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Keywords
labor unions; voting; voter turnout;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2010-07-24 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2010-07-24 (Positive Political Economics)
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