concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through … majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is … fraction of the fat tax proceeds is “earmarked” to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a …

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly …

paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's weight problem (intensive margin), but does not induce the individual … other goods), which may render the tax on unhealthy food inferior to the option of not taxing the individual at all. In … addition, with heterogeneous individuals the optimal uniform paternalistic tax may have the negative side effect of rendering …

-indifferences approach comparing the regular and the repeated round of the second ballot, and examine whether voter turnout, postal voting …, invalid voting and the vote shares of the candidates changed in scandal districts. Postal voting declined, but the results do … not show that districts with inconsistencies differ regarding voter turnout, postal voting, invalid voting, and vote …

It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by … granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather … than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing according to expediency is, however, criticized by ordinary tax payers …

We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We … thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky … other policy issues with long-run consequences. We illustrate how PARDCLU yields rank-dependent expected utilitarianism …