Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Esteban, Joan - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009
We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. Thisjoint treatment permits analyzing … that partisanconfrontation essentially falls on expenditure policies rather than on income taxation.We examine the case in … which the expenditure policy (or the size of government) ischosen by majority voting and income taxation is consistently …