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The Political Economy of Taxation : Power, Structure, Redistribution
Winer, Stanley L. - 2017
In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964375
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The Scope of Political Redistribution with Income Taxation
Lopez Rodriguez, David - 2014
This paper investigates the politicians' incentives to pursue income redistribution when governments are constrained to …-kind transfers reduces the disincentive effects of taxation in labor effort and enlarges the pool of resources for political … redistribution. As a result, politicians are able to implement larger redistributive transfers and improve the well-being of swing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050181
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The political economy of commitment to policies
Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2023
IPCC (2022) documents a looming gap between climate goals and implemented policies and points to a lack of political commitment. We study policymakers' incentives to commit. A policymaker decides on a policy to encourage citizens to make investments and determines the degree of flexibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014369623
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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness
Debowicz, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016
We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563113
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Social Mobility and Redistributive Taxation
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131968
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Autocracy, Democracy and Trade Policy
Galiani, Sebastian - 2011
We study democratization, coups and trade policy determination in an environment marked by intra-elite conflict over trade policy by taking a simple general equilibrium model of an open economy and combining it with the Acemoglu-Robinson model of democratization. Unlike the approaches taken in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132536
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Aspirations of the Middle Class : Voting on Redistribution and Status Concerns
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122867
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Existence of a Condorcet Winner When Voters Have Other-Regarding Preferences
Dhami, Sanjit - 2008
In standard political economy models, voters are self-interested i.e. care only about own utility. However, the emerging evidence indicates that voters often have other-regarding preferences (ORP), i.e., in deciding among alternative policies voters care about their payoffs relative to others....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723854
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Social Preferences and Redistribution under Direct Democracy
Dhami, Sanjit - 2008
There is growing evidence on the roles of fairness and social preferences as fundamental human motives, in general, as well as in voting contexts. In contrast, models of political economy are based on selfish-voters who derive utility solely from own payoffs. We examine the implications of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724410
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The Political Economy of Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information
Dhami, Sanjit - 2008
This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771452