An Economic Model of Representative Democracy

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Publication:4351424


DOI10.1162/003355397555136zbMath0882.90001MaRDI QIDQ4351424

Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate

Publication date: 28 August 1997

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/73b8a3aef193dab6c2820ac9bfb2b7fd33f8f4fa


91B52: Special types of economic equilibria

91B12: Voting theory

91B18: Public goods

91B14: Social choice


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