Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis : an assessment [PDF]
This paper discusses and assesses critiques of the aurhor's reformulation of the median voter hypothesis and its testing. The author rephrases and redefines more correctly the redistribution hypothesis and clarifies its relationship with the median voter
Milanovic, Branko
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Balancing Infrastructure and Human Capital: Optimal Fiscal Composition for Sustainable Growth
EconomíaThis paper investigates the relationship between fiscal policy composition and long-run economic growth by extending the classic Alesina–Rodrik framework.
Octavio Martínez-Baltodano +1 more
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The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation [PDF]
There is little causal evidence on the effect of economic and policy outcomes on voting behavior. This paper uses randomized outcomes from a school choice lottery to examine if lottery outcomes affect voting behavior in a school board election.
Douglas O. Staiger +3 more
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The Role of the Media Agenda in a Context of Political Polarization
Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2011 This article addresses the role of the media agenda in the context of political polarization that has predominated in Spain over the last decade. Starting from a first hypothesis regarding the relationship between political polarization and the median ...
Juan Jesús González, Amparo Novo
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Spatial heterogeneity in deployment and upscaling of wind power in Swedish municipalities
Renewable and Sustainable Energy TransitionDeployment of new onshore wind power faces challenges due to growing resistance, prompting increased interest in the development of effective deployment strategies.
Yodefia Rahmad +3 more
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Empirical analysis of the influence of voters and politicians in the public choice of Portuguese municipalities universidade portucalense [PDF]
When estimating a specification combining different influences on local public choice, three public issues of different ideological attributes were compared for two periods of Portuguese local government intervention: the beginning and the ending of one ...
José Manuel Cruz
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¿Blue Leviathan? : The oscillations of security policy in Buenos Aires province (1984-2011)
Revista Colección, 2017 The aim of this article is to describe and explain the process of formulation and implementation of security policies in Province of Buenos Aires between 1984 and 2011.
Gabriel Constantino
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Sluggishness, Endogeneity and the Demand for Local Public Services [PDF]
Earlier studies estimating the demand for local public services by means of the median voter model have typically assumed exogenous regressors and static set-ups.
Dahlberg, Matz, Jacob, Johanna
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Brazilian Democracy and the Power of “Old” Theories of Party Competition
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike. Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil’s political ...
Fabiano Santos
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Median Voter Preferences, Central Bank Independence and Conservatism [PDF]
This paper studies how the independence and conservatism of a central bank relate to the structure and stability of the median voter preferences. This is done by means of a model of endogenous delegation in which an opportunistic policy-maker chooses the
Francesco Lippi
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