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Some simple economics of voting and not voting

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The authors are, respectively, Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research at the U. S. Treasury. Without implicating them, we would like to thank Ryan Amacher, Dennis Mueller, Roger Sherman, and Gordon Tullock for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Tollison, R.D., Willett, T.D. Some simple economics of voting and not voting. Public Choice 16, 59–71 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01718807

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