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Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil
Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020
by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event … and 2018 presidential elections in Brazil, which resulted in the election of a left-wing and a rightwing populist … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299776
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The empirics of the median voter: Democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335331
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014
Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of future mobility and the belief that society offers equal opportunities. We add to previous research by investigating the role of individual and social norms on rent seeking. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369526
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An Economic Theory of Constitutional Choice
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 11-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696619
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The empirics of the median voter : democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881703
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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? : the political economy of revolution revisited
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374793
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Equity and international trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2008 - Print date: September 6, 2008
We develop a generalized approach to the treatment of household inequality aspects of social welfare in general equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general equilibrium distributional aspects of social welfare related to import protection may be examined...
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Income inequality, mobility, and the welfare state : a political economy model
Bossi, Luca; Gumus, Gulcin - 2011
revenues among transfer payments and old-age pensions. We show that the coalitions formed, the resulting political equilibria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311993
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Income distribution and tax structure : microeconomic test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2001
The tax structure is important for the income distribution and therefore a key playground for redistributive politics. The standard theory assumes that more unequal income distribution will create a majority for more redistribution (Meltzer and Richard). This study investigates the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399685
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Preferences for redistribution in Europe
Olivera, Javier - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 14, pp. 1-18
This paper uses pseudo panel techniques and a fixed effects estimator to analyse the determinants of preferences for redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European Social Survey. The main result is that changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417134