Election goals and income redistribution: Recent evidence from Albania [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2001 This paper examines the impact of political competition on block grants from federal to sub-federal levels of government. We model the extent and direction of income redistribution as determined proximately by the political agendas of central decision makers and, at a deeper level, by the institutions within which they "nd themselves operating.
Anne Case
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Fiscal redistribution around elections when democracy is not “the only game in town” [PDF]
Public Choice, 2016 This paper examines whether policy intervention around elections affects income inequality and actual fiscal redistribution. We first develop a simplified theoretical framework which allows us to examine fiscal redistribution around elections when democracy is not “the only game in town” and there is a threat of revolution from some groups of agents ...
Pantelis Kammas, Vassilis Sarantides
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La préparation et le passage du recensement du Soudan 2008
EchoGéo, 2008 The Fith population census enumeration operations have just been achieved. They have to meet the 38 millions inhabitants of the largest countries of Africa with a unique questionnaire shared by two statistical institutions, one in the North and a second ...
Eric Denis, Julien Dupuy
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When clientelism is in crisis: Brokers of JDP during 2014 and 2019 local elections in Türkiye [PDF]
Filozofija i DruštvoClientelism is an exchange relationship that includes sources of patrons and services of clients. In the political dimension, this relationship’s basic characteristic involves political support from citizens and the redistribution of resources ...
Altun Erdoğan
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Quantification of factors influencing the difference in household income in the Czech Republic
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013 Income inequalities, resulting from different income of economic entities and the level of redistribution (especially the amount and structure of taxes on one hand and transfer payments on the other) and peculiarities of the market economy, have been ...
Jolana Kvíčalová, Jan Široký
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The Taxman Tools Up: An Event History Study of the Introduction of the Personal Income Tax in Western Europe, 1815 - 1941 [PDF]
, 2007 The introduction of income taxation was a landmark in the development of the fiscal state in Western Europe and elsewhere. This paper presents an event history study of the adoption of the income tax in 11 Western European countries between 1815 and 1941.
Aidt, Toke S., Jensen, Peter S.
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Safe as houses? Conservative social policy, public opinion and Parliament [PDF]
, 2010 Social policy is of key importance to contemporary society, accounting for two thirds of public expenditure and, through provision such as the NHS, pensions, benefits, schools, universities and social care, touching on the lives of much of the population
Bochel, Hugh, Defty, Andrew
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Surviving Election: Corruption and Transformation of Clientelism
PCD Online Journal, 2017 This article discusses clientelism practice as a political machine to mobilise supports for the candidates of district head who were trapped in a corruption case.
Caroline Paskarina
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SOCIAL SERVICES IN CAPE TOWN: AN ANALYSIS USING THE POLITICAL ETHICS OF CARE
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2007 At the time of South Africa’s transition to a constitutional democracy in 1994 the African National Congress (ANC) government inherited a deeply divided racially-based social welfare service system.
Vivienne Bozalek +4 more
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Government ideology and support for redistribution among the wealthy
Political Science Research and MethodsWhen and why do wealthy individuals support redistribution? Under standard political economy models, preferences for redistribution are a function of material conditions.
Fabio Resmini, Daniel Rojas
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