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Democracy, Wages and Inequality : Political Voice and Public Finance Redistribution

Tan, Elaine S. - 2011

Greater democracy increases the voice of the people, creating political contestation and participation, and leading to …

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The Unequal Representation of Income Groups and Direct Democracy

Wüest, Reto - 2016

policymaking process. Our analysis shows that direct democracy might be an alternative to achieve this goal, as decisions that are … common under direct democracy than under representative democracy …

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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

puzzle in standard economic models. To study this phenomenon, we propose a positive theory of IEAs in which the political … (might not be implemented in full). The theory also provides a new perspective for understanding investments in green …

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An Experiment on Democratic Versus Dictatorial Collective Decision Making

Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P. - 2015

effect on public goods contributions, we find that there is no difference between the decisions made under democracy and …

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Dictators Don't Compete : Autocracy, Democracy and Tax Competition

Genschel, Philipp - 2016

It pays to be a tax haven. Ireland has become rich that way. Why do not all countries cut their capital taxes to get wealthy? One reason is structural. As the standard model of tax competition explains, small countries gain from competitive tax cuts while large countries suffer. Yet not all...

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