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Besley, Timothy, and Ann Case, Does Electoral Accountability Affect Economic Policy Choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial Term Limits, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110, 1995
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Besley, Timothy, and Stephen Coate, An Economic Model of Representative Democracy, 1995, typescript
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