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Voter preferences, electoral promises, and the composition of public spending

Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2020

This paper proposes and empirically tests a new demand-side explanation for distortions in public spending composition. Voters prefer spending with certain and immediate benefits when they have low trust in electoral promises and high discount rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics...

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Tax competition and the political economy of public employment : a model for Austria

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

In this work we simulate the effects of tax autonomy of the Austrian states on the levels of public employment in each state. We show that depending on the strength of the public sector lobby, tax autonomy would require reduction of employment in the public sector between 25% and 35% of the...

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Majority voting in a model of means testing

Cardak, Buly A.; Glomm, Gerhard; Ravikumar, B. - 2018

We study a model of endogenous means testing where households differ in their income and where the in-kind transfer received by each household declines with income. Majority voting determines the two dimensions of public policy: the size of the welfare program and the means-testing rate. We...

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Spatial advertisement in political campaigns

Prummer, Anja - 2016

This paper characterizes the optimal advertising strategy of candidates in an election campaign, where groups of heterogeneous voters are targeted through media outlets. We discuss its effects on the implemented policy and relate it to the well-documented increase in polarization. Additionally,...

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Public funding of parties and political polarization

Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

This work analyzes the impact of asymmetric financial constraints on the platforms of parties, using a formal model of elections. The main results show that when a party faces a tight financial constraint, the platform chosen in equilibrium is further away from its ideal point compared with the...

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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...

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Gender and electoral incentives : evidence from crisis response

Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Tricaud, Clemence - 2022

While there is evidence of gender differences in leaders' behavior, less is known about what drives these gaps. This paper uncovers the role of electoral incentives. Using a close election regression discontinuity design in Brazil, we first show that female mayors handled the COVID-19 crisis...

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Whom to lobby? : targeting in political networks

Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016

We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision-makers' ideologies as well as the network structure. We...

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The political economy of emission tax design in environmental policy

Glachant, Matthieu - 2002

In actual environmental policy, the design of actual pollution emission taxes differs significantly with the optimal Pigovian tax. In particular, earmarking prevails and actual taxes are usually combined with regulation. Furthermore tax rates are generally too low to significantly influence...

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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence

Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2013

with two candidates. These candidates are interested in power and ideology, but their weights on these two motives are not …., ideology) and the uncertainty about voters' preferences. The theoretical predictions are supported by the data collected from a … levels in all treatments, and the comparative statics effects across treatments are as predicted by the theory. …

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