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Non-partisan 'get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes
Kovenock J., Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
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Can Information About Inequality and Social Mobility Change Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials in 11 High and Middle-Income Countries
Hoy, Christopher - 2018
the national government to address inequality through redistribution by providing them with information about inequality … preferences for redistribution are only elastic to information in some countries and in the United States both types of … information lowered support for redistribution. Secondly, in middle income countries, information about people's position in the …
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James M. Buchanan and the European public choice movement : what did we learn from him?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
In this note, three major areas of Buchanan's research are briefly described: (1) The ideas of Knut Wicksell on Buchanan's work, (2) constitutional economics and the veil of ignorance, and (3) the role of government and/or the power to tax. It is shown that these three areas had a major...
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The Electoral Impact of Wealth Redistribution. Evidence from the Italian Land Reform
Caprettini, Bruno - 2019
We study the political consequences of a major land reform in Italy, which split large estates and transferred land to small owners. Using a panel spatial regression discontinuity design, we show that the reform benefited the incumbent Christian Democrat party. The electoral benefits persist for...
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Prospect equality : a force of redistribution
Qu, Xiangyu - In: Journal of public economic theory 26 (2024) 1, pp. 1-25
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Why do redistributive policies differ across countries? : analyzing the multiple dimensions of preferences for redistribution
Kambayashi, Ryo; Lechevalier, Sébastien - In: Review of income and wealth 68 (2022) 4, pp. 1032-1057
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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...
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Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness : an experimental study
Durante, Ruben; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2013
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781859
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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden
Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016
We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …
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