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Fiscal federalism and redistributive politics
Avinash Dixit,John Londregan +1 more
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In this article, the interaction between redistributive politics at central and local levels in a federal system, and characterize the factors influencing success in redistributeive politics in both federal and unitary systems.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1998-05-01. It has received 235 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fiscal federalism & Unitary state.read more
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
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Spatial Models of Party Competition
TL;DR: The use of spatial ideas to interpret party competition is a universal phenomenon of modern politics as discussed by the authors, and most spatial interpretations of party competition have a very poor fit with the evidence about how large-scale electorates and political leaders actually respond to politics.
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Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political competition
Assar Lindbeck,Jörgen W. Weibull +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, balanced budget redistribution between socioeconomic groups is modeled as the outcome of electoral competition between two political parties, and a sufficient condition for existence is given, requiring that there be enough heterogeneity with respect to party preferences in the electorate.
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The Determinants of Success of Special Interests in Redistributive Politics
Avinash Dixit,John Londregan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine what determines whether an interest group will receive favors in pork-barrel politics, using a model of majority voting with two competing parties, where each group's membership is heterogeneous in its ideological affinity for the parties.
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Electoral Politics as a Redistributive Game
Gary W. Cox,Mathew D. McCubbins +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the optimal strategy for risk-averse candidates will be to promise redistributions first and foremost to their reelection constituency and thereby to maintain existing political coalitions.