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Majority voting and the single-crossing property when voters belong to separate groups
De Donder, Philippe - In: Economics letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 523-525
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729512
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The political economy of fiscal decisions : the strategic role of public debt
Wolff, Jessica de - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729625
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Policy convergence under approval and plurality voting : the role of policy commitment
Dellis, Arnaud; Oak, Mandar - In: Social choice and welfare 29 (2007) 2, pp. 229-245
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003524017
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Is foreign aid a pure public good for donor country citizens?
Wiseman, Travis; Young, Andrew T. - In: Constitutional political economy 26 (2015) 4, pp. 421-433
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Elections and the Structure of Taxation in Developing Countries
Ehrhart, Helene - 2013
This article analyses the impact of the electoral calendar on the composition of tax revenue (direct versus indirect taxes). It thus represents an extension of traditional political budget-cycle analyses assessing the impact of elections on overall revenue. Panel data from 56 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087618
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The fiscal impact of immigration in the EU
Christl, Michael; Bélanger, Alain; Conte, Alessandra; … - 2021
The increasing flows of immigrants in Europe over the last decade has generated a range of considerations in the policy agenda of many receiving countries. One of the main considerations for policy makers and public opinions alike is whether immigrants contribute their "fair" share to their host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501332
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The empirics of the median voter: Democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism …, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335331
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Economic Recessions and Congressional Preferences for Redistribution
Carreri, Maria - 2019
We analyze the roots of politicians' preferences for redistribution by exploring whether early life experiences have … persistent, long-run effects on U.S. Members of Congress' voting records. We study whether having experienced an economic … recession during early adulthood affected their positions on redistribution-specific bills during the period 1957-2014. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903094
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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality : Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103481
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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality : Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103911