The Benefits of Costly Voting
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- Surajeet Chakravarty & Todd R. Kaplan & Gareth Myles, 2010. "The Benefits of Costly Voting," Discussion Papers 1005, University of Exeter, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
costly voting; externalities.;JEL classification:
- C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2010-03-28 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2010-03-28 (Positive Political Economics)
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