Voting for Voters: A Model of Electoral Evolution
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1 The authors thank R. J. Aumann, C. d’Aspremont, D. Granot, S. Hart, and A. Perea for various comments and suggestions that helped improve this paper. 2 E-mail: [email protected]. This author gratefully acknowledges partial support from Spanish Ministry of Education DGICYT Grant PB-98-0870 and Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca Grant SGR98-62. 3 E-mail: [email protected]. This author gratefully acknowledges DGICYT, Spanish Ministry of Education, for Grant SAB95-0276 that enabled him to participate in this research. 4 E-mail: [email protected]. This author gratefully acknowledges the support for his research given by the Belgian Program on Interuniversity Poles of Attraction initiated by the Belgian State, Prime Minister’s Office, Science Policy Programming. This research was done when the author was working at CORE.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Games and Economic Behavior
دوره 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001