A unified analysis of rational voting with private values and group-specific costs

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2010.02.008MaRDI QIDQ608548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Curtis R. Taylor, Huseyin Yildirim

Publication date 25 November 2010

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2010.02.008

zbMATH Keywords

coordination problemcostly votingfree-riding incentiveunderdog effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic games, stochastic differential games (91A15) Rationality and learning in game theory (91A26) Voting theory (91B12) History, political science (91F10)

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