In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

redistribution. We allow politicians to have core support groups they understand better, this implies politicians are more or less …

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …

This paper investigates the politicians' incentives to pursue income redistribution when governments are constrained to …-kind transfers reduces the disincentive effects of taxation in labor effort and enlarges the pool of resources for political … redistribution. As a result, politicians are able to implement larger redistributive transfers and improve the well-being of swing …

preferential taxation of expats. Our econometric analysis reveals that in rural communities, where attracting rich expats has a …

redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution …