Political participation and the welfare state

Rainald Borck

A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political participation and redistribution.

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Year of publication:	2018
Authors:	Borck, Rainald
Publisher:	Munich : CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
Subject:	political participation \| turnout \| welfare spending \| Sozialstaat \| Welfare state \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour \| Partizipation \| Participation \| Öffentliche Sozialausgaben \| Public social expenditure \| Sozialpolitik \| Social policy

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 22 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	CESifo working papers. - München : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2364-1428, ZDB-ID 2065232-X. - Vol. no. 7128
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/181328 [Handle]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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