The Cabals of a Few or the Confusion of a Multitude: The Institutional Trade-Off between Representation and Governance

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  2011

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  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1257/POL.3.1.1
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