Political Selection and the Concentration of Political Power
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JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-02-22 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CTA-2015-02-22 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-POL-2015-02-22 (Positive Political Economics)
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