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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090538

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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Defense as a Private Good in a Competitive Order

Wiśniewski, Jakub Bożydar - 2015

In this paper, I attempt to provide a comprehensive demonstration that, contrary to popular opinion, there is nothing inherent in defense that makes it belong to the category of common goods, thus indicating that its effective provision does not require the existence of a territorial monopoly of...

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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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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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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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'Expressive' Obligations in Public Good Games : Crowding-In and Crowding-Out Effects

Corazzini, Luca; Marenzi, Anna; Bernasconi, Michele - 2010

We study individual behaviour in a repeated linear public good experiment in which, in each period, subjects are required to contribute a minimum level and face a certain probability to be audited. Audited subjects who contribute less than the minimum level are convicted to pay the difference...

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Norms, Conformity, and Controls

Tayler, William B.; Bloomfield, Robert J. - 2010

Research in behavioral economics suggests that in addition to their traditional incentive effects, formal control systems can influence psychological motivations. We extend this literature by demonstrating experimentally that formal controls directly influence people’s sense of what behaviors...

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