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Public Choice, 1984
Vote maximizing candidates for reelection often have an incentive to redistribute income. They target certain constituent groups as recipients for income transfers and others as income losers. Resulting situations bifurcate sharply. Some have characteristics of ‘fairness’ and moderation and others of exploitation.
Norman Frohlich, Joe Oppenheimer
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Vote maximizing candidates for reelection often have an incentive to redistribute income. They target certain constituent groups as recipients for income transfers and others as income losers. Resulting situations bifurcate sharply. Some have characteristics of ‘fairness’ and moderation and others of exploitation.
Norman Frohlich, Joe Oppenheimer
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Immigration and voting for redistribution: Evidence from European elections
Labour Economics, 2019Abstract In this paper we document the impact of immigration on political support for welfare state expansion, using national election data of twelve European countries between 2007 and 2016. We match individual information on party voting with a classification of the political agenda of 126 parties during 28 elections.
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Redistribution, Tax Policy and the Vote: The 2012 French Presidential Election
Parliamentary Affairs, 2012As tax policy is one of the most prominent issues for France at a time of great economic crisis and public debt, this article analyses how redistribution has been viewed and considered by voters. Assuming three main hypotheses about attitudes towards redistribution (egotropic perspective, sociotropic perspective and voter incompetence), we propose a ...
Guillaud, Elvire, Sauger, Nicolas
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Elections and income redistribution
Public Choice, 1986This paper has analyzed a model of elections in which each candidate selects a reputation for the distribution of income that can be expected if he is elected. The first result established that, whenever there are three or more groups of voters and no single group has half or more of the voters, if the candidates believe that the voters' choices are ...
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The Journal of Politics, 2010
Many economic and social conditions shape public welfare spending. We are able to show, however, that after taking account of these conditions, the expressed left-right preferences of the median voters significantly affect comparative welfare spending.
Shin-Goo Kang, G. Bingham Powell
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Many economic and social conditions shape public welfare spending. We are able to show, however, that after taking account of these conditions, the expressed left-right preferences of the median voters significantly affect comparative welfare spending.
Shin-Goo Kang, G. Bingham Powell
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Predicting the Present: Realigning Elections & Redistributive Policies
Polity, 1975Tubbesing brings together two vigorous contemporary modes of analyzing American politics. Policy analysis (Lowi et al.) is brought to party realignment theory (Burnham et al.) to permit formulation of a view concerning realigning elections and the likely shape of our political parties and perhaps our policies.
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SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGETARY ELECTIONS: A COST REDISTRIBUTE PROCEDURE?
Policy Studies Journal, 1981ABSTRACTThis article examines, theoretically and empirically, school district budgetary election voting behavior. In the study it is argued that the change from fiscally independent to state‐funds dependent school district operations may have altered the traditional cost/quantity‐based school budgetary voting behavior.
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2023
Persistent economic and political inequalities in developing countries have intensified public debates about the causes of inequality and the implementation of redistributive policies. While inequality and redistribution are outcomes of political processes and institutions, this thesis aims to address understudied aspects of political partisanship ...
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Persistent economic and political inequalities in developing countries have intensified public debates about the causes of inequality and the implementation of redistributive policies. While inequality and redistribution are outcomes of political processes and institutions, this thesis aims to address understudied aspects of political partisanship ...
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Village Elections and Redistribution of Political Power and Collective Property
The China Quarterly, 2009AbstractThis study of competitive elections in a northern China village identifies two contradictions: one between villagers and village officials, the other between village elite and those seeking power. The one between villagers and the old leadership in the village focuses on the latter's corruption and bad governance, which had led to serious ...
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Electoral redistribution and the 1986 Queensland state election: Confirming 1983
Politics, 1987Abstract The 1986 Queensland state election, though uncommonly noisy, did not take place in as dramatic circumstances as that of 1983. Nevertheless, its significance may be as potentially enduring. For years the Nationals had struggled for a metropolitan base, and had long coveted the opportunity of governing the state without the Liberals.
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