Voting on redistribution
Voting on redistribution
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对重新分配进行投票
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2011
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通讯作者:
V. Ulrich
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作者:
U. Schneider;V. Ulrich
Redistribution has gained attention in the political process in the last decades. At present, a share of 22 percent of the GDP is related to social expenditures and serves redistributive purposes. In the literature, first approaches deal with aspects of income inequality and its impact on public policy. Newer models integrated aspects of upward mobility, partisan behavior and taxation. While most of the approaches only refer to transfers as the only form of public expenditures, including public goods changes the picture. With two population subgroups, incentives when voting for redistribution depend on whether an individual is taxpayer or benefits from public transfers. Moreover, in times of an aging population, the group of transfer recipients, especially retirees, becomes the dominant group thereby gaining more electoral weight than the group of employees.