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Income inequality, redistribution and the position of the decisive voter
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016 A large literature explaining patterns of redistribution makes use of the median voter theorem. Using a novel approach, this contribution shows that in OECD countries the decisive voter, determined by the earner who sees her preferred tax rate being ...
Loek Groot, Daan Van Der Linde
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Some limits of the median voter theorem
Transversal Economics, 2017 General elections are coming in France, and parties are campaigning. Unprecedented situation: 5 big candidates. Meaning: 5 candidates whose probability to gather at least 10% of the votes is significant - and it is unlikely any of them exceed 30% as a ...
Thibault Laurentjoye
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The Nexus Between the Democratic Transition and the Structural Transformation
Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2020 There are several theoretical and empirical papers on the structural transformation but there is not a study relating structural transformation with the political regime switch in the country.
Deniz Güvercin, Adem Gök
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The Electoral Success of the Left in Latin America: Is There Any Room for Spatial Models of Voting?
Latin American Research Review, 2020 Why have moderate electorates elected and reelected leftist governments in Latin America over the last twenty years? Scholars who rely on the classic Downsian logic of the median voter theorem have observed a process of ideological moderation among the ...
Juan A. Moraes, Diego Luján
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Does median voter income matter? The effects of inequality and turnout on government spending [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the relationship between economic inequality, electoral turnout and redistributive spending. I use the Current Population Survey to create direct measures of the income of the median voter to investigate its effect on spending and ...
Barnes, Lucy
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EconomiA, 2017 The aim of this paper is to determine whether it is necessary to increase available resources to local governments or if better use of these funds is sufficient.
Fabiana Rocha +4 more
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Beyond the median voter: A model of how the ideological dimension shapes party polarization. [PDF]
Physical Review EDefying the median voter theorem, party polarization has spread globally, especially in the United States. As concerns grow over its risks to democracy, political science has probed its causes, revealing two paradoxes: while polarization between U.S ...
Roberto Venegeroles
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Political Opinion and the Trends in Romanian Government Expenditures
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2016 A critical question for citizen deliberation is whether the country expends the right amount of public funds, allocated in the right proportions across the various substantive tasks of the government.
Cosmin Gabriel MARIAN, Ronald F. King
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On strategy-proofness and single-peakedness: median-voting over intervals
International Journal of Game Theory, 2020 We study correspondences that choose an interval of alternatives when agents have single-peaked preferences over locations and ordinally extend their preferences over intervals. We extend the main results of Moulin (Public Choice 35:437–455, 1980) to our
B. Klaus, Panos Protopapas
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Candidate Entry and Political Polarization: An Antimedian Voter Theorem
American Journal of Political Science, 2013 We study a citizen‐candidate‐entry model with private information about ideal points. We fully characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of the entry game and show that only relatively “extreme” citizen types enter the electoral competition as candidates, whereas more “moderate” types never enter.
Grosser, Jens, Palfrey, Thomas R.
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