Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor) - 2007
. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male median voter when women are disenfranchised. Next we show that, as … disenfranchisement becomes higher than the cost of the higher tax rate which applies under universal enfranchisement, the male median … voter is better off extending the franchise to women. A consequent expansion of the size of government is only to be …