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Keywords
accountability; elections; information; jury theorem;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-07-11 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-MIC-2015-07-11 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2015-07-11 (Positive Political Economics)
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