How majorities can lose the election Another voting paradox |
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| Authors: | Marco A Haan Peter Kooreman |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Groningen, Department of Economics, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands (e-mail: {m.a.haan; p.kooreman}@eco.rug.nl), NL |
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| Abstract: | We show that due to free riding of potential voters facing positive voting costs, the proposal with the highest number of
supporters can still be the most likely to lose a binary election.
Received: 17 January 2001/Accepted: 10 June 2002
Financial support was provided by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). We thank an anonymous referee
for useful comments. |
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