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A note on Condorcet consistency and the median voter [PDF]
We discuss to which extent the median voter theorem extends to the domain of single-peaked preferences on median spaces. After observing that on this domain a Condorcet winner need not exist, we show that if a Condorcet winner does exist, then it ...
Buechel, Berno
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An empirical application of the median voter model and of the interest group influence model to the Portuguese and Galician municipalities [PDF]
The analysis of the median voter hypothesis indicates that a more realistic comprehension of local public choice might be achieved with the opening of the median voter model to the interst group influence hypothesis.
José Cruz
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Mediating Income Inequality: Electorate Ideology, Labor Mobilization, and Party Ideologies
The Korean Journal of International StudiesHow does income inequality shape party ideologies? This study examines how income inequality influences party ideologies through two mediating mechanisms: electorate ideology and labor mobilization.
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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach [PDF]
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. Our key insight is that linking benefits to past earnings (less redistributiveness) reduces the efficiency ...
Marko Koethenbuerger +2 more
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Single-Crossing, Strategic Voting and the Median Choice Rule [PDF]
This paper studies the strategic foundations of the Representative Voter Theorem (Rothstein, 1991), also called the "second version" of the Median Voter Theorem. As a by-product, it also considers the existence of non-trivial strategy-proof social choice
Alejandro Saporiti, Fernando Tohmé
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Political institutions and tax rate initiatives
Ensayos Revista de Economía, 2009 In a model of a representative democracy, we incorporate into the analysis of tax design the constitutional provision that allows voters to propose tax initiatives.
Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez
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Locally Provided Public Schooling in Brazilian Municipalities [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to assess the demand for public schooling in the Brazilian municipalities within a median voter framework. The quantile regression and spatial techniques proved to be useful to account for the spatial and marginal effects ...
Maria da Conceição Sampaio e Sousa
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Appointing the Median Voter of a Policy Board
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), 1998 A description of a model which demonstrates that delegating monetary policy to an independent policy board with discretionary powers substantially reduces policy uncertainty while maintaining political accountability.
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LIBERALISMUL ROMÂNESC, NAȚIONAL ȘI EUROPEAN (1821-1918) [PDF]
Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale, 2018 The study emphasizes the intricate conceptual and political route taken by liberalism in Romania, in the light of the European liberalism, as well extremely complex, in theoretical, historical and political terms during the period 1821-1918.
HENRIETA ANIȘOARA ȘERBAN
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Redistribution, taxes, and the median voter [PDF]
We study a simple model of production, accumulation, and redistribution, where agents are heterogeneous in their initial wealth, and a sequence of redistributive tax rates is voted upon.
Jess Benhabib, Marco Bassetto
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