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Faber, Malte; Petersen, Thomas - 2012

Income inequality in China is severe; measured by the Gini-coefficient it amounted to 0.46 in 2011; wealth distribution is even worse with 0.61. These disparities led to a major shift in emphasis of politics in general and of the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development by the...

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Going green and (un)equal? : political coalitions, redistribution, and the environment

Gatti, Donatella - In: Economic modelling 116 (2022), pp. 1-10

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Is there a green dividend of national redistribution?

Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2022

CO2 emissions are disproportionately caused by more affluent consumers. In the political debate, this fact has triggered the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes not only to reduce inequality but also to reduce CO2 emissions. This paper calculates the possible size of such a green...

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Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Keefer, Philip; Milanovic, Branko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...

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Economic Security, Well Functioning Courts and a Good Government

mamoon, dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper defines economic security as a country’s ability to re distribute incomes through a strong governance …

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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration

Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept …

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Economic security, well functioning courts and a good government

Mamoon, Dawood - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) July, pp. 587-611

through a strong governance structure by practicing rule of law, eliminating corruption and a government that acts as a …

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Keeping Dictators Honest: the Role of Population Concentration

Do, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2009

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. around the policy … governance. We bring this centered concept of population concentration to the data through the Centered Index of Spatial …

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The Role of Efficiency of Redistributive Institutions on Redistribution: An Empirical Assessment

Aysan, Ahmet Faruk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In spite of both theoretical and empirical contributions to investigate the determinants of redistribution, an important gap remains in the literature, which is the effect of efficiency of redistributive institutions on redistribution. This paper is an attempt to show that the state apparatus...

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Inequality, legitimacy, and the political system

Andersen, Robert; Burgoon, Brian; Werfhorst, Herman van de - In: Changing inequalities in rich countries : analytical …, (pp. 218-238). 2014

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