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Political inequality, political participation, and support for populist parties

Kellermann, Kim Leonie - In: Constitutional Political Economy 33 (2021) 4, pp. 461-482

We theoretically investigate how political abstention among certain social groups encourages populist parties to enter the political stage, trying to absorb inactive voters. We design a two-stage game with two established parties and n voters who jointly determine a taxation policy. The...

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Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes

Lenger, Alexander; Wolf, Stephan; Goldschmidt, Nils - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2020) 2, pp. 315-346

In a novel experimental design, we study how social immobility affects the choice among distributional schemes in an experimental democracy. We design a two-period experiment in which subjects first choose a distributional scheme by majority voting (“social contract”). Then subjects engage...

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Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life

Alcalde-Unzu, Jorge; Ballester, Miguel A.; Nieto, Jorge - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 209-226

This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures … some ideas of John StuartMill, we propose that freedom of choice has to be understood not in a single stage of choice, but … this new framework, we propose a set of axioms that imply the following family of measures of lifetime's freedom of choice …

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A characterization of the uniform rule without Pareto-optimality

Ehlers, Lars - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 447-452

We consider private good economies with single-peaked preferences. We show that the uniform rule is the only allocation rule satisfying omega-continuity, no-envy, and one-sided resource-monotonicity. This result strengthens a characterization of the uniform rule due to Thomson (Soc Choice Welf...

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On guarantees, vetoes and random dictators

Bogomolnaia, Anna; Holzman, Ron; Moulin, Hervé - In: Theoretical Economics 18 (2023) 1, pp. 97-127

A mechanism guarantees a certain welfare level to its agents, if each of them can secure that level against unanimously adversarial others. How high can such a guarantee be, and what type of mechanism achieves it? In the n-person probabilistic voting/bargaining model with p deterministic...

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Burden sharing in deficit countries: A questionnaire-experimental investigation

Gaertner, Wulf; Schwettmann, Lars - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 2, pp. 113-144

This paper studies the problem of burden sharing in countries that were forced to introduce severe budget cuts after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 which had unleashed a financial crisis in many industrialised countries of the Western world. We do not ask how the burden was actually...

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Health, responsibility and taxation with a fresh start

Calo-Blanco, Aitor - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 2, pp. 177-199

In a model where individuals differ in both their health care needs and their lifestyle preferences, we examine the fair provision of health care when those who regret their initial decisions are granted a fresh start. By considering that each agent chooses how to allocate a given amount of...

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Inequality reducing properties of progressive income tax schedules: The case of endogenous income

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto G. - In: Theoretical Economics 13 (2018) 1, pp. 39-60

The case for progressive income taxation is often based on the classic result of Jakobsson, 1976 and Fellman, 1976, according to which progressive and only progressive income taxes - in the sense of increasing average tax rates on income - ensure a reduction in income inequality. This result has...

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Who's afraid of aggregating money metrics?

Bosmans, Kristof; Decancq, Koen; Ooghe, Erwin - In: Theoretical Economics 13 (2018) 2, pp. 467-484

We provide an axiomatic justification to aggregate money metrics. The key axiom requires the approval of richer-to-poorer transfers that preserve the overall efficiency of the distribution. This transfer principle - together with the basic axioms of anonymity, continuity, monotonicity, and a...

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One-dimensional mechanism design

Moulin, Hervé - In: Theoretical Economics 12 (2017) 2, pp. 587-619

We prove a general possibility result for collective decision problems where individual allocations are one-dimensional, preferences are single-peaked (strictly convex), and feasible allocation profiles cover a closed convex set. Special cases include the celebrated median voter theorem (Black...

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