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Soft paternalism, merit goods, and normative individualism
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014
Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals' decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...
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Voting and popularity
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2016
For about 45 years, vote and popularity functions have been estimated for many countries indicating that voting … countries and time periods. In papers, retrospective sociotropic voting dominates. However, the evidence is not so univocal; it … rather tells that voting has egotropic as well as sociotropic aspects, and it is prospective as well as retrospective. It is …
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On the political economy of environmental policy
Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schneider, Friedrich - 2002 - Second revised version: May 2002
. -- environmental policy ; ecological taxes ; tradable permits ; voluntary agreements ; voting behaviour ; public bureaucracy ; interest …
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The effects of fiscal institutions on public finance : a survey of the empirical evidence
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2001
This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal institutions of the last three decades. The main results are: (i) Constitutional or statutory fiscal limitations have in most cases proved to be effective in cutting down public expenditure, revenue, and debt. (ii) Budgetary proce-dures matter...
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