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Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Tacit Collusion in Politics

Johansson, Christian; Kärnä, Anders; Meriläinen, Jaakko - 2021

We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equilibria. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy...

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Public and Private Welfare State Institutions: A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism

Thomsson, Kaj - 2010

I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large private welfare state with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These interest...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320232

Securing personal freedom through institutions: The role of electoral democracy and judicial independence

Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019

Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...

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Public and Private Welfare State Institutions : A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism

Thomsson, Kaj - 2010

I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large "private welfare state" with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191309

Taxation and the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship

Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2009

We study the effect of taxation on entrepreneurship, taking into account both the amount of entry and the quality of … likelihood of entry into self-employment, may underestimate the adverse effect of taxation. …

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Trends and gradients in top tax elasticities: Cross-country evidence, 1900-2014

Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We compile data spanning the period 1900-2014 and up to 30 countries to study long-run patterns in the tax elasticity of top incomes. Our results show that top tax elasticities vary tremendously over time; they were medium-to-low before 1950, virtually zero during the postwar era up to 1980 and...

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Topping up and the political support for social insurance

Bergh, Andreas - 2013

This paper analyzes how the possibility to complement social income insurance schemes with private insurance affects the political support for social insurance. It is shown that political support for social insurance is weakly decreasing in the replacement rate. Policy makers seeking to maintain...

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Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution

Karadja, Mounir; Möllerström, Johanna; Seim, David - 2014

effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs. We implement a tailor-made survey in Sweden and … income position. Respondents who learn that they are richer than they thought demand less redistribution and increase their … altruism or moral values about redistribution. Moreover, the effect can be reconciled by people with political preferences to …

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Women's Representation and Public Spending

Svaleryd, Helena - 2007

This paper studies whether the degree of women's representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may have an impact on public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To...

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The taxation of closely held firms: The achilles heel of the dual income tax system reconsidered

Stenkula, Mikael; Wykman, Niklas - 2022

This study presents an improvement of the King-Fullerton framework for calculating the marginal effective tax rate (METR) for active owners of closely held corporations in a dual income tax system with income splitting rules. The original King and Fullerton model was not modeled to incorporate...

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