Too close to call: Growth and the cost of ruling in US presidential elections, with an application to the 2012 election
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Keywords
Economic voting; US presidential elections;JEL classification:
- 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-2012-11-17 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-FOR-2012-11-17 (Forecasting)
- NEP-POL-2012-11-17 (Positive Political Economics)
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