How Elitism Undermines the Study of Voter Competence
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Keywords
information; search; competence; political knowledge; public policy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
- Y80 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Related Disciplines - - - Related Disciplines
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2006-12-04 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-PBE-2006-12-04 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2006-12-04 (Positive Political Economics)
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