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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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On the political economics of tax reforms: survey and empirical assessment
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the political economics literature on personal income tax systems and reforms to see how political mechanisms help explain tax reforms and found that political variables carry more weight than economic variables, and empirical regularities that support political economy theories.
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The politico-economic determinants and productivity effects of regional transport investment in Europe
Achim Kemmerling,Andreas Stephan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the determinants and productivity effects of regional transportation infrastructure investment in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain were studied and they found that efficiency and redistribution were consistently the dominant norms while equity considerations appeared to be less important.
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Political yardstick competition, economic integration, and constitutional choice in a federation:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the behavior of rent-seeking politicians in an environment of increasing economic integration, focusing on the implications of globalization-induced political yardstick competition for constitutional design with a view to the current discussion in the European Union.
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Pork-barrel politics, targetable policies, and fiscal federalism
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model of redistributive politics with jurisdictional specific local projects is used to analyze the inefficiencies that arise under differing levels of targetability in both taxes/transfers and local projects.
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The political economy of India's fiscal federal system and its reform
M. Govinda Rao,Nirvikar Singh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take place, including the role of academics, political influences, and especially institutions such as the Finance Commission.
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
TL;DR: The authors show that the Musgrave-Samuelson analysis, which is valid for federal expenditures, need not apply to local expenditures, and restate the assumptions made by Musgrave and Samuelson and the central problems with which they deal.
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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.