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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2012
Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general orientation of our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556362
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Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752158
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Non-consequentialist voting
Shayo, Moses; Harel, Alon - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 299-313
Standard theory assumes that voters’ preferences over actions (voting) are induced by their preferences over electoral outcomes (policies, candidates). But voters may also have non-consequentialist (NC) motivations: they may care about how they vote even if it does not affect the outcome. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597459
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Inequality in democracy: Insights from an empirical analysis of political dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Beja Jr, Edsel; Mendoza, Ronald U.; Venida, Victor S.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70 percent of jurisdiction-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114449
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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus
KirchgÄssner, Gebhard - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012
Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general or ientation of our modern demo cracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161436
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Who has voice in a deliberative democracy? Evidence from transcripts of village parliaments in south India
Ban, Radu; Jha, Saumitra; Rao, Vijayendra - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 428-438
deliberative democracy in an non-laboratory setting, using a unique dataset collected from transcripts of deliberation that … credible: its preferences approach the pivotal agent in a pure representative democracy, the median household. These effects …
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Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension
Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
sources on both democracy and inequality. When we substitute more commonly-used and higher-quality data sources for democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642712
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Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis
Olivera, Javier - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 … highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth … unemployment has considerably raised the citizens’ demand for redistribution. …
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - Econometica - 2014
Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are sig- nificantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933357
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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials
Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …
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