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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs
Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993478
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083850
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Epper, Thomas - 2020
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842932
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Sennt, Julien - 2021 - Revised version, December 2021
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815448
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306855
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584334
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Strategic choices for redistribution and the veil of ignorance : theory and experimental evidence
Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192077
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Political Compromise and Endogenous Formation of Coalitions
Gerber, Anke; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - 2008
A one-dimensional model of spatial political competition with endogenous party formation is developed. It is proved that at equilibrium there are only two parties. These parties propose alternatives in the extreme positions of the policy space. The adopted policy, however, is a compromise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221617
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Dynamic Collective Choice with Endogenous Status Quo
Dziuda, Wioletta; Loeper, Antoine - 2015
This paper analyzes an ongoing bargaining situation in which preferences evolve over time and the previous agreement becomes the next status quo, determining the payoffs until a new agreement is reached. We show that the endogeneity of the status quo induces perverse incentives that exacerbate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162072
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Hiding Information in Electoral Competition
Heidhues, Paul; Lagerlöf, Johan - 2002
We model a two-candidate electoral competition in which there is uncertainty about a policy-relevant state of the world. The candidates receive private signals about the true state, which are imperfectly correlated. We study whether the candidates are able to credibly communicate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114607