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Taxing expats — instrumental versus expressive voting compared

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Blankart, C.B., Margraf, S. Taxing expats — instrumental versus expressive voting compared. Swiss J Economics Statistics 147, 461–478 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399356

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