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Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

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Voting on redistribution with tax evasion

Borck, Rainald - 2003

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

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Utilitarianism, voting and the redistribution of income

Usher, Dan - 2017

can only be reconciled by compromise or by voting. The greatest number must be of citizens alive today, but governments …

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Imperfect Information and the Meltzer-Richard Hypothesis

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

Standard models of voting on redistribution generate a clear-cut prediction: redistribution increases in income …

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A political economy perspective on persistent inequality, inflation, and redistribution

Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - 2010

In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective. We consider a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which agents vote over the desired inflation rate in each period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our...

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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - 2011

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

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