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Voter turnout as a participation game: An experimental investigation

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  1. CREED, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, University of Amsterdam, Roetesstraat 11, 1018, WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arthur Schram & Joep Sonnemans

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Financial support by the Netherlands' Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) is gratefully acknowledged. We would like to thank Jeff Banks, Eric van Damme, Werner Güth, Claudia Keser, Theo Offerman, Mark Olson, Jörgen Wit, and two anonymous referees for useful comments, and Otto Perdeck for computational assistance.

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Schram, A., Sonnemans, J. Voter turnout as a participation game: An experimental investigation. Int J Game Theory 25, 385–406 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02425263

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