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Endogenous Party Structure
Konishi, Hideo; Kobayashi, Katsuya - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2013
This paper proposes a model of two-party representative democracy on a single-dimensional political space, in which voters choose their parties in order to influence the parties' choices of representative. After two candidates are selected as the median of each party's support group, Nature...
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A Politico-economic Approach on Public Debt in an Endogenous Growth Economy
Arai, Real; Naito, Katsuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
by labor income taxation and/or public debt issuance. The size of these public policies is determined in a repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107665
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The Optimal Degree of Polarization
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This discussion paper led to a publication in the 'European Journal of Political Economics', 2004, 20, 255-262.<P> 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...</p>
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On the political economy of compulsory education
Balestrino, Alessandro; Grazzini, Lisa; Luporini, Annalisa - In: Journal of economics 134 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - In: International tax and public finance 31 (2024) 4, pp. 980-1008
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Self Selection and Administration Cost in the Formation of Tax Structure
Warskett, George; Winer, Stanley L.; Hettich, Walter - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1988
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The Complexity of Tax Structure in Competitive Political Systems
Warskett, George; Winer, Stanley; Hettich, Walter - In: International Tax and Public Finance 5 (1998) 2, pp. 123-151
We explore the nature of tax complexity in competitive political systems. The analysis does not rely upon imperfections in the operation of the public sector. Complexity arises in the course of the struggle for office, during which political parties are induced to propose platforms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005711339
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Why Don’t We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World
Ardanaz, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos - 2011
Personal income taxation remains relatively low in many developing countries despite recent democratic advancement and … rapid economic growth; this is hard to reconcile with standard political economy models of taxation. This paper argues that … the details of political institutions help to explain these low levels of personal income taxation. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328149
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600982
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278314