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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717717
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Do more powerful interest groups have a disproportionate influence on policy?
Sharif, Zara; Swank, Otto H. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724330
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Participation Dilemma : The Logic of Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections
Mehrdad, Navid - 2018
Why do the electorate vote or abstain from voting under competitive authoritarianism? Elite rent seeking and rent distribution are recognized as main determinants of turnout in authoritarian elections, but the logic of voting decision on the side of an oppositional electorate remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928571
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Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation
Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2020
Electoral legislation varies across countries and within countries over time, and across different types of elections in terms of how it allows publication of intermediate election results including turnout and candidates' vote shares during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221414
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Political Participation and the Welfare State
Borck, Rainald - 2018
A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review … this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the … empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912682
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Inequality, Participation, and Polarization
Vlaicu, Razvan - 2017
intensified class conflict or a political wealth bias. This paper formalizes a theory of polarization where changes in the income … distribution do not affect citizens' policy preferences, but instead change their patterns of political participation: aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141820
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Do institutions affect citizens' selection into politics?
Brändle, Thomas - 2013
Traditional political economy has paid primary attention to the structuring of the principal-agent relationship between citizens and politicians and the role of competition and institutions in disciplining political agents. However, as the electoral control of politicians and the credibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772195
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Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E. - 2013
This forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Income Distribution (eds., A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon) summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity. We begin by reviewing the philosophical debate concerning equality since Rawls (sections 1 and 2), present economic algorithms for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073893
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Dynamic Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E. - 2016
What are the long-term effects of policies intended to equalize opportunities among different social classes of children? To find out, we study the stationary states of an intergenerational model where adults are either White or Blue collar employees. Both adults and the state invest in their...
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