The effects of voting costs on the democratic process and public finances
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- Roland Hodler & Simon Luechinger & Alois Stutzer, 2015. "The Effects of Voting Costs on the Democratic Process and Public Finances," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 7(1), pages 141-171, February.
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Keywords
Fiscal policies; political knowledge; postal voting; special-interest politics; voter turnout; voting costs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2012-06-13 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2012-06-13 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2012-06-13 (Public Finance)
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