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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 …
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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 …
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CEE both former members of the Communist parties and their children have stronger preferences for redistribution than the … rest of the population, in Russia former CPSU members do not exhibit stronger preferences for redistribution at the same … time, their children support redistribution …
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The U.S. Constitution includes many checks and balances that necessitate the ruling party to compromise with the opposition. I develop a model in which this feature prompts the President to compromise on the strength of the candidates nominated for positions in the federal government and...
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We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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influential studies of congressional voting by Poole and Rosenthal. Congressmen vote on more than ideology. Issue …-specific attributes are an important determinant of congressional voting patterns. The estimated dimension is too large for the median … voter model to describe congressional voting …
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redistribution. We conduct an online survey experiment in which the treatment group is informed of the universal benefits from public … politically achieve redistribution through expanding the government size without reducing policy progressivity. Our results also …
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This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. Extended and harmonised data on effective … redistribution recently provided by the newest version of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database allows for the assessment … of the origins of governmental redistribution for a broad sample of countries. Our findings confirm the Meltzer …
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We empirically study the effects of culture and diversity on government redistribution based on a large sample of … of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. Redistribution is higher in … inequality to redistribution. Finally, we show that redistribution and diversity in terms of culture, ethnic groups, and religion …
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, wherein the fulfillment of surging demands for redistribution is largely dependent on whether or not the political elites will … advocate for redistribution. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey, we find that the political elites prefer … redistribution. Accounting for covariate differences fully explains the gap in preference for progressive taxation, but not the gap …
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