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Department of Economics, University of Washington. We wish to thank Dick McDonald for his help with the computations.
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Barzel, Y., Silberberg, E. Is the act of voting rational?. Public Choice 16, 51–58 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01718806
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