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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...
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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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Aspirations of the middle class : voting on redistribution and status concerns
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 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 … play a role in the political economy context. -- Redistribution ; other-regarding preferences ; median voter ; experiments …
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Social mobility and redistributive taxation
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social … attributed to social or other-regarding preferences. -- Median voter ; redistribution ; social mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409123
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Inequality and Size of the Government When Voters Have Other Regarding Preferences
Dhami, Sanjit - 2008
The celebrated relation between inequality and redistribution is based on selfish voters who care solely about own … redistribution. We reexamine the relation between inequality and redistribution, within a simple general equilibrium model, when … can lead to increased redistribution (which implies a countercyclical social spending to GDP ratio). Third, we show that …
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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....
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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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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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Politicians Avoid Tax Increases Around Elections
Chang, Andrew C.; Cohen, Linda R.; Glazer, Amihai; … - 2021
We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians avoid tax increases in election years. These data contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2) when state politicians implement tax laws on consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048668
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Politicians Avoid Tax Increases Around Elections
Chang, Andrew C.; Cohen, Linda; Glazer, Amihai; Paul, … - 2020
We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians avoid tax increases in election years. Our data provide three items of information: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2) when state politicians implement tax laws on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095514