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Is the act of voting rational?

✍ Scribed by Yoram Barzel; Eugene Silberberg

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1973
Tongue: English
Weight: 637 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0048-5829
DOI: 10.1007/bf01718806

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