Voting Behavior and Information Aggregation in Elections With Private Information

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DOI10.2307/2171878zbMath0898.90050OpenAlexW2165084594MaRDI QIDQ4359764

Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Timothy Feddersen

Publication date: 20 October 1997

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/math/papers/1117.pdf




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