This paper contributes to the literature on majority voting over fiscal policies. We depart from the standard model in …

, they set up a theoretical model which was rooted in status theory. With this concept, one may explain a certain or optimal …

rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics of voter choices into a probabilistic voting model with public spending …

impact is equalizing for direct taxes and unequalizing for indirect taxes. Overall, redistribution through taxes, without … of the corporate income tax contributes to improve redistribution and accounts for better comparison with the …

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

in political economy would have us believe that democracies ought to reduce inequality through redistribution (e … that would benefit materially from redistribution also increases, making it more likely that a pro-redistribution political …-system institutionalization with lower levels of redistribution, both theoretically and empirically through cross-national comparisons. Finally …

and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration … voting procedure can dampen the effect of relaxing immigration policies as desired policy reforms are not always implemented …

these difficulties. For this issue, we introduce a concept based on cooperative game theory which takes into account the …

Aim: The purpose of this paper is to bring together theory and policy of (personal) income distribution on the one hand …