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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009

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Guilt aversion and redistributive politics : a moral intuitionist approach

Le Garrec, Gilles - 2013

show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the "new … synthesis" in moral psychology (Haidt, 2007: The new synthesis in moral psychology) the author proposes to modelize the voting … behavior over redistribution as the interaction between (a) an automatic cognitive process which quickly generates intuitions …

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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009 - This version: December 21, 2009

fund capture. A model is presented where rich voters can block redistribution by buying the votes of some poor voters. In … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich …

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Local candidates and distributive politics under closed-list proportional representation

Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018

Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically, the causal effects of local representation are...

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Ignorance is bliss: voter education and alignment in distributive politics

Boffa, Federico; Cavalcanti, Francisco; Piolatto, Amedeo - 2021

Central-government politicians channel resources to sub-national entities for political gains. We show formally that the central politicians' allocation decision has two drivers: political alignment (between central and local politicians) and the level of local political accountability. However,...

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Just Don't Call It Tax! Framing in an Experiment on Voting and Redistribution

Lorenz, Jan - 2015

Utilizing a simplified version of the Meltzer-Richard redistribution mechanism we designed a laboratory experiment to … test whether it matters if voters were asked to decide on a tax rate or minimum income, leaving the redistribution … mechanism itself unchanged. Framing the vote about redistribution as a decision about a minimal income increases the ideally …

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Chapter 23 Strong reciprocity and the welfare state

Fong, Christina M.; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1439-1464). 2006

due to their endorsement of an empirically implausible theory of selfish human motivation. Drawing on anthropological …

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Markovian social security in unequal societies

Chen, Kaiji; Song, Zheng Michael - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 116 (2014) 4, pp. 982-1011

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Class altruism and redistribution

Ghiglino, Christian; Juárez-Luna, David; Müller, Andreas - 2021

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Does inequality harm democracy? : an empirical investigation on the UK

Soci, Anna; Maccagnan, Anna; Mantovani, Daniela - 2014

This paper presents an empirical investigation about the effect of an increase in economic inequality on some aspects of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country (instead of a pool of countries) - the UK - in a long run...

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