Elections with platform and valence competition

DOI10.1016/j.geb.2008.11.007zbMath1168.91326OpenAlexW2167015548MaRDI QIDQ834864

Scott Ashworth, Ethan Bueno De Mesquita

Publication date: 27 August 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2008.11.007

zbMATH Keywords

elections with platformvalence competition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12) Other game-theoretic models (91A40)

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