[EL] Betting on Elections

[Hess, Doug]

I believe a paper a few years ago by Forrest Maltzman on the Supreme Court of the US mentioned that the justices had an office betting pool going on the 2000 election's electoral college outcome. 

Douglas R Hess
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Grinnell College
1210 Park Street
Carnegie Hall #302
Grinnell, IA 50112-1670

phone: 641-269-4383
http://www.grinnell.edu/academics/areas/political-science

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A paper on the history of election betting in the common law.
Questioning its industrialization in latter times, and how it might further commodify elections.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378149

Graeme Orr
Brisbane
Australia
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