Gens una sumus?!—Or does political ideology affect experts’ esthetic judgment of chess games?

This paper presents evidence on biased voting by jurors from the Warsaw Pact countries who ranked high-level chess games. This bias is observed only for jurors from Eastern countries, not for those from the West (NATO), and most interestingly, it disappears after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Frank, Björn ; Krabel, Stefan
Published in:	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-2681. - Vol. 92.2013, C, p. 66-78
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Chess \| Cold War \| Juries \| Political ideology \| Biased voting

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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