Private polling in elections and voter welfare

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2008.05.013MaRDI QIDQ840682zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Bernhardt, John Duggan, Francesco Squintani

Publication date 14 September 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2008.05.013

zbMATH Keywords

electionsplatform divergencepollingpolitical campaignsspending caps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Voting theory (91B12)

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