Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences
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Note: Publised in Public Choice, 2005, Vol. 122, pp. 319-331.
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- Olof Johansson-Stenman & Peter Martinsson, 2005. "Anyone for higher speed limits? – Self-interested and adaptive political preferences," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 319-331, March.
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Keywords
Speed limits; self-interested voting; expressive voting; sociotropic voting; selfserving bias; adaptive political preferences;All these keywords.
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- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
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