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The political economy of commitment to policies
Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2023
IPCC (2022) documents a looming gap between climate goals and implemented policies and points to a lack of political commitment. We study policymakers' incentives to commit. A policymaker decides on a policy to encourage citizens to make investments and determines the degree of flexibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014369623
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Inequality, Participation, and Polarization
Vlaicu, Razvan - 2017
The upward co-movement of income inequality and partisan polarization in the U.S. is typically attributed to intensified class conflict or a political wealth bias. This paper formalizes a theory of polarization where changes in the income distribution do not affect citizens' policy preferences,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141820
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Aspirations of the Middle Class : Voting on Redistribution and Status Concerns
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122867
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Aspirations of the middle class : voting on redistribution and status concerns
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2011
. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as … play a role in the political economy context. -- Redistribution ; other-regarding preferences ; median voter ; experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407744
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Social mobility and redistributive taxation
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social … attributed to social or other-regarding preferences. -- Median voter ; redistribution ; social mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409123
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Social mobility and redistributive taxation
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933725
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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness
Debowicz, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016
We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563113
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Existence of a Condorcet Winner When Voters Have Other-Regarding Preferences
Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2008
In standard political economy models, voters are self-interested i.e. care only about own utility. However, the emerging evidence indicates that voters often have other-regarding preferences (ORP), i.e., in deciding among alternative policies voters care about their payoffs relative to others....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723854
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Inequality and Size of the Government When Voters Have Other Regarding Preferences
Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2008
The celebrated relation between inequality and redistribution is based on selfish voters who care solely about own … redistribution. We reexamine the relation between inequality and redistribution, within a simple general equilibrium model, when … can lead to increased redistribution (which implies a countercyclical social spending to GDP ratio). Third, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770856
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Social Mobility and Redistributive Taxation
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131968