services rather than by transfers, higher income inequality may imply a smaller size of the government in majority voting … equilibrium. In addition to a static voting model, an endogenous growth model is analyzed to examine the role of saving decisions … of heterogeneous individuals for both the distributional incidence of proportional factor income taxes and the voting …

We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of … steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is positively related to both level of altruism and altruism …

rotating agenda setting, a taxpayer-protection rule and repeated voting. The latter rule makes vote buying prohibitively costly. …