Search Results - subject:"Median voter hypothesis"

When Can the Rabble Redistribute? Democratization and Income Distribution in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Nel, Philip - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

-income countries (LMICs) has been followed, as a rule, by a concentration of income. Using the median voter hypothesis as analytical …

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The social sub-optimality of competitive elections: comment

Holcombe, Randall - In: Public Choice 138 (2009) 1, pp. 217-219

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Is the Median Voter Decisive? Evidence of 'Ends Against the Middle' From Referenda Voting Patterns

Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009

This paper examines whether the voter with the median income is decisive in local spending decisions. Previous tests have relied on cross-sectional data while we make use of a pair of California referenda to estimate a first difference specification. The referenda proposed to lower the required...

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How Decisive Is the Decisive Voter?

Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

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Local government internal structure, external constraints and the median voter

Turnbull, Geoffrey; Geon, Gyusuck - In: Public Choice 129 (2006) 3, pp. 487-506

outcome of the median voter hypothesis (MVH). Probit analysis identifies the factors associated with counties that satisfy the …

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Empirics of the median voter hypothesis in Japan

Doi, Takero - In: Empirical Economics 24 (1999) 4, pp. 667-691

This paper empirically analyses for the first time the median voter hypothesis in Japan as a means of investigating …. Reasonable intuitive interpretation of results indicates that the median voter hypothesis is supported in prefectural finances …

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