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How Charitable Organizations Influence Federal Tax Policy : 'Rent-Seeking' Charities or Virtuous Politicians?

Knauer, Nancy J. - 2010

Tax-exempt charitable organizations exert considerable influence over Congress, the Department of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service in matters dealing with exemption from federal income tax and the tax deductibility of charitable contributions. This Article uses both public choice...

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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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Information, social mobility and the demand for redistribution

Feri, Francesco - 2008

support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals … gender. We find that the POUM effect could increase or decrease the support for redistribution depending on the parameters of …

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Risk Aversion and Social Mobility : The Impossibility of Order-Pre-Serving Income Redistributions

Danziger, Leif; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021

redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …

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Information, social mobility and the demand for redistribution

Feri, Francesco - 2008

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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 …

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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...

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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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On the possibility of political change : outcomes in between local and global equilibria

Olovsson, Conny (contributor); Roine, Jesper (contributor) - 2007 - Rev. March 15, 2007

respect to the possibilities of political change seem general for problems of redistribution with excludability. -- political … economy ; political equilibrium ; voting ; redistribution ; education subsidies ; local equilibrium ; non-median voter …

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