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The political economy of pension reform : public opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Machado, Fabiana V.P.; Vesga, Giselle - 2015
Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change...
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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016
Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...
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The political economy of redistribution and (in) efficiency in Latin America and The Caribbean
Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023
“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous suffrage extensions suggest that there are systematic differences between what parliaments decide and what voters want with respect to enfranchisement of new groups. This paper...
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Migración forzada y finanzas públicas locales : evidencia de los municipios en Colombia
Traettino, Salvador - 2023
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Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform : experimental evidence from Latin American countries
Ardanaz, Martin; Hübscher, Evelyne; Keefer, Philip; … - 2022
Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an … political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …
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Politics, policies and the dynamics of aggregate productivity in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela - 2009
This paper describes private actors involvement in Colombia s policymaking process. While more transparent and formal channels are used to discuss horizontal policies, they are also less effective. The adoption of targeted policies, however, follows a faster track and depends more on political...
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The Political Economy of Productivity in Argentina: Interpretation and Illustration
Urbiztondo, Santiago; Cristini, Marcela; Moskovitz, Cynthia - 2009
This paper examines how the main characteristics of Argentina s policymaking process (PMP) affect the productivity of its economy using the conceptual framework presented in Murillo, Scartascini and Tommasi (2008), Stein et al. (2008), Spiller and Tommasi (2007), and IDB (2005). First, the paper...
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Move to markets? : an empirical analysis of privatization in developing countries
Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh; Munger, Michael C. - 2002
We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle-income developing countries. The theoretical perspective turns on the concept of net political benefits, which in our model is the primary determinant of privatization policies....
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Does citizen participation in budget allocation pay? : a survey experiment on political trust and participatory governance
Ardanaz, Martin; Otálvaro-Ramírez, Susana; … - 2022
Participatory programs can reduce the informational and power asymmetries that engender mistrust. These programs, however, cannot include every citizen. Hence, it is important to evaluate if providing information about those programs could affect trust among those who do not participate. We...
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