What drives gasoline taxes? [PDF]
Gasoline taxes are the most important tax on car use. The question naturally arises as to what tax would be adopted by a government that responds to the preferences of the public.
Stef PROOST +2 more
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Service to demands and corruption tolerance: brazilian voters' perception of “rouba, mas faz” policy
Revista Ambiente ContábilPurpose: The research aimed to verify the influence of meeting public demands on the perception of tolerance of Brazilian voters towards the “rouba, mas faz” policy. Although a social unison of rejection of corruption in politics is perceived, there is a
João Antonio da Costa Neto +3 more
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WP 98 - The graying of the median voter [PDF]
Analyzing 30 OECD-countries in 1980-2005, this paper documents the association of an aging electorate with retirement spending. The fi rst result is that an increase in the age of the median voter of one year is associated with an increase of 0.25 ...
Ferry Koster, David Hollanders
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MODELLING OF SEPARATISM IN EUROPE
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношенияIntroduction. This article is devoted to the study of separatism in contemporary political science, namely the application of a combination of mathematical models in the study of separatist processes in Europe.
Yulia Frolova
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A note on Condorcet consistency and the median voter [PDF]
, 2011 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 coincides with the median alternative ('the median voter').
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Fiscal illusion, fiscal consolidation and government expenditure composition in the OECD: a dynamic panel data approach [PDF]
Following the present atmosphere of budgetary cuts in the OECD countries we analyze the effects of fiscal consolidation in the composition of government expenditures by functions.
Ismael Sanz, Francisco J. Velázquez
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Reconsidering the Demand for Municipal Public Goods Specification : Evidence from French Municipalities [PDF]
Following Bergtrom and Goodman (1973), this paper can be integrated in the set of studies that have estimated the demand for municipal public services.
Marie-Estelle Binet
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DEMAND FOR LOCALLY PROVIDED PUBLIC SERVICES WITHIN THE MEDIAN VOTER'S FRAMEWORK: THE CASE OF THE BRAZILIAN MUNICIPALITIES [PDF]
In this paper we estimated the demand for local public spending for the Brazilian municipalities within a median voter's framework. Results obtained are consistent with the theoretical background thus suggesting that this hypothesis might be useful to ...
Constantino Cronemberger Mendes +1 more
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Individual demand for local public schooling: Evidence from Swedish survey data [PDF]
In this paper we investigate the demand for local public school expenditures in Sweden using survey data, a method previously never applied to Swedish data.
Ahlin, Åsa, Johansson, Eva
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Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data [PDF]
Using time-series cross-section data on state-level registration and turnout, "motor voter" registration programs mandated by the National Voter Registration Act are found to be effective in enhancing voter participation in the states that have already ...
Knack, Stephen
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