Voting in legislative elections under plurality rule

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2016.08.004MaRDI QIDQ337788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niall Hughes

Publication date 3 November 2016

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/82165/2/WRAP_ec-131016-hughes_jet.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

strategic votingPoisson gamesDuverger's lawlegislative electionsplurality rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History, political science (91F10) Applications of game theory (91A80) Voting theory (91B12)

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