Can Democracy Educate a Society?

We examine whether democratic societies can escape poverty traps. Unrestricted agenda setting with simple majority rules fail to educate a society, because education-enhancing redistribution will not occur. We show that a combination of suitable constitutional rules overcomes this impossibility result: rotating agenda setting and agenda repetition in combination with flexible majority rules or with a tax protection rule.

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Year of publication:	2005-07
Authors:	Gersbach, Hans ; Siemers, Lars
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	constitutional design \| claims on deductions \| flexible majority rules \| agenda repetition \| poverty traps \| child labor

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 1693 41 pages
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue. General ; H52 - Government Expenditures and Education ; I20 - Education. General ; O10 - Economic Development. General ; O40 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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