The Political Wealth of Nations

国家的政治财富

• 批准号: 2049256
• 负责人: Marko Klasnja
• 金额: $ 14.01万
• 依托单位: Georgetown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Political; Wealth; Nations

Political elites across the globe are considerably wealthier than the populations they represent. Many worry that wealthy citizens may be advantaged because election campaigns are expensive or because holding office requires giving up a job that only the wealthy may afford. There are also concerns that wealthy politicians may skew policies toward their economic interests—interests that may differ from much of the population. But how serious are these concerns? This project systematically collects data on the wealth of political elites in countries around the world to assess generally how (financially) representative politicians are of their citizens. The project analyzes such questions as the extent to which less expensive campaigns help the less wealthy candidates win, and how much the wealth of a country’s political elite influences its social and redistributive policies. The study’s results help us better understand the causes and consequences of economic inequality, policy-making and representation in different types of political systems.Due to the lack of comparative data on politicians' wealth, there is virtually no existing larger-N cross-national work on how political institutions affect the disparity between the wealth of elected representatives and their constituents. This leaves our understanding of the causes and consequences of representational inequalities incomplete, as it is difficult to ascribe broad causes and extrapolate from existing single-country studies. This project collects data on politicians' wealth in fifty-one countries and creates comparable datasets of constituency and citizen wealth. Combining these data in novel ways with other cross-national datasets, the project examines through statistical analyses, natural experiments, and quantitative case studies a number of related research questions, such as the effect of campaign finance regulations and electoral rules on politician wealth, and the relationship between politicians' wealth and a country's social safety net policies. The resultant database helps facilitates research on political representation and policy-making, and may be used to inform policy decisions about the design, implementation, and uses of office-holders’ financial disclosures.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

地球仪的政治精英们比他们所代表的人口富裕得多。许多人担心，富裕的公民可能会因为竞选费用昂贵或因为担任公职需要放弃只有富人才能负担得起的工作而被解雇。也有人担心富有的政治家可能会使政策偏向他们的经济利益，而这些利益可能与大多数人的利益不同。但这些担忧有多严重？该项目系统地收集了世界各国政治精英财富的数据，以总体评估政治家（在财务上）如何代表其公民。该项目分析了一些问题，如花费较少的竞选活动在多大程度上帮助不那么富有的候选人获胜，以及一个国家政治精英的财富对其社会和再分配政策的影响程度。该研究的结果有助于我们更好地理解经济不平等的原因和后果，政策制定和代表在不同类型的政治制度。由于缺乏关于政治家财富的比较数据，几乎没有现有的大N跨国工作，政治制度如何影响当选代表和他们的选民之间的财富差距。这使得我们对代表性不平等的原因和后果的理解不完整，因为很难从现有的单一国家研究中找出广泛的原因和推断。 该项目收集了51个国家的政治家财富数据，并创建了选民和公民财富的可比数据集。该项目将这些数据以新颖的方式与其他跨国数据集相结合，通过统计分析、自然实验和定量案例研究来研究一些相关的研究问题，例如竞选财务法规和选举规则对政治家财富的影响，以及政治家财富与国家社会安全网政策之间的关系。由此产生的数据库有助于促进对政治代表性和政策制定的研究，并可用于告知有关设计，实施和使用官员的财务披露的政策决定。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。