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Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics

Schultz, Christian - 2003

The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...

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Anarchy, efficiency, and redistribution

Bös, Dieter; Kolmar, Martin - 2000

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first develop a contractarian theory of redistribution. The existence of rules … of redistribution is explained without any recourse to the risk-aversion of individuals. Hence, we depart from the … standard legitimization of redistribution as fundamental insurance and interpret it as stemming from a principle of reciprocity …

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...

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Pure redistribution and the provision of public goods

Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Economics letters 95 (2007) 3, pp. 334-338

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Identity and redistribution: theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Manifold, Emma; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2020

members of British political parties, for whom political identity is salient and redistribution is also likely to be salient …

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Does the winner take it all? : redistributive policies and political extremism

Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sassen, Wim - 2020

We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...

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