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Party-crashers or wallflowers? The lack of strategic voting in experimental primaries

Calvin BlackwellDepartment of Economics, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Peter T. CalcagnoDepartment of Economics, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USAView further author information
Pages 1641-1648 | Published online: 16 Mar 2019

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