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Dictatorships, Patronage and Public Good Provision

Khan, Karim - 2012

that dictators rely more on military for political support instead of relying on the wide cross-section of society. As a … result, they are spending more on military rather than on the provision of public services. Our results, based on the data … from cross-section of the countries, confirm this hypothesis. We use military spending as an indicator of the patronage to …

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Elite Structure and the Provision of Health-Promoting Public Goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites diﬀer in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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A Note on Collective Action, Cooperation, Collusion, and Voluntary Production of Public Goods

Wiśniewski, Jakub Bożydar - 2018

In this note I challenge the claim that if it is possible to successfully produce public goods on a voluntary, decentralized basis, it must also be possible on the same basis to create stable cartels capable of reaping monopoly gains and frustrating consumer sovereignty. My proposed solution is...

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A Political Reciprocity Mechanism

Pongou, Roland - 2020

This paper considers the problem faced by a political authority that has to design a legislative mechanism that guarantees the selection of policies that are stable, efficient, and inclusive in the sense of strategically protecting minority interests. Experimental studies suggest that some of...

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Nonrivalness, Subjectivity and Capital – An Overview of the Austrian Theory of Club Goods

Wiśniewski, Jakub Bożydar - 2014

According to neoclassical economic theory, club goods would be underproduced by the market in the absence of a monopoly of force capable of coercing every able member of society to contribute to their provision. By applying both the methodological tools developed by the Austrian School of...

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A Duplicitous Revolution? Maoists’ Armed Conflict and Public Goods Provisioning in Rural India

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Khan, Haider Ali - 2017

The Maoists claim that they are fighting for the cause of the rural poor languishing under extreme poverty and impoverish conditions – a claim also acknowledged by the expert committee of Indian Planning Commission (2008). On the other hand, the government of India dubs the Maoists revolution...

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Political Support and Voluntary Tax Compliance

Lee, Jongyearn - 2022

We empirically analyze the effect of political support for the government on voluntary tax compliance. To this end, we use 33 survey results of the contingent valuation (CV) method developed and widely used for the valuation of non-market goods in the field of environmental economics. The degree...

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Warum die Steuerzahler eine Steuervereinfachung verhindern

Mackscheidt, Klaus - 2009

Häufig erfahren die Bürger wenig über den Nutzen öffentlicher Güter im Vergleich zum Steueropfer, das sie dafür aufbringen müssen: Gegenüber öffentlichen Gütern besteht keine Konsumentensouveränität. Als Ersatz dafür könnte wenigstens eine Wählersouveränität bei öffentlichen...

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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003

Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...

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