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Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

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Inequality, Redistribution and Growth

Meijdam, Lex; Haile, D. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

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Mackerels in the moonlight. A model of corrupt politicians

Evrenk, Haldun - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper examines causes of the persistence of corruption among elected politicians in democracies. We study a theoretical model of competition between two candidates who differ both in ability and popularity in a probabilistic voting setup. Each candidate proposes a tax rate and a public good...

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Class altruism and redistribution

Ghiglino, Christian; Juárez-Luna, David; Müller, Andreas - 2021

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The Optimal Degree of Polarization

Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto - 2001

In the literature on electoral politics full convergence of policy platforms is usually regarded as socially optimal. Thereason is that risk-averse voters prefer a sure middle-of-the-road policy to a lottery of two extremes with the sameexpectation. In this paper we study the normative...

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Competing on good politicians

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and allocate them into the electoral districts. Non-ideological voters, who care about national and...

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Population Aging, the Composition of Government Spending,and Endogenous Economic Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium

Kuehnel, Johanna - 2011

This paper introduces a democratic voting process into an OLG economy in order to analyze the e ffects of a rising old-age dependency ratio on the composition of government spending and endogenous economic growth. Forward-looking agents vote each period on the public policy mix between...

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Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Tacit Collusion in Politics

Johansson, Christian; Kärnä, Anders; Meriläinen, Jaakko - 2021

We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equilibria. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy...

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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

voters who jointly determine a taxation policy. The electorate is divided into two groups, the advantaged and the …

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Trade liberalization during transition: A political economy perspective

Wunner, Norbert - 1996

Most transitional economies in Central and Eastern Europe have rather surprisingly resisted protectionist pressures - at least during early stages of reform - and adopted liberal trade policies. In this paper the course of trade policy during transition is explained from a political economy...

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