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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Redistributive policies"”.
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The Right Thing to Do: Moral Conviction Associated with Reducing Economic Inequality Predicts Support for Redistributive Policies
… respectively) positively predicted support for redistributive government policies (such as minimum wages and tax breaks increases) – also when controlling for income, subjective socio-economic inequality and economic system justification (i.e., other critical predictors of support for …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries
… to uninsured households, and time-consistent redistributive policies are countercyclical. The introduction of a political friction, in which alternating governments disagree on the desired redistributive policy, can lead to procyclical transfer policies. In numerical simulations, the model …
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Essays on inequality, redistribution and wealth-based politics
… of inequality, its political system, and the redistributive policies it will choose. We explore the widely used argument that the wealthier have more political power which they can use to oppose efficient redistributions. We show that the effect of a rise in inequality on the wealth of the …
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Agenda-setting in the states: An institutional analysis
… for interstate variation in agenda attention to redistributive issues. I develop a model of state policy agenda formation that integrates the ideological preferences of the political actors across institutions with those of constituents and looks at the conditioning effects of elections and the …
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Democratization and the development of Japan's uneven welfare state
… of poor relief in the Diet. Beyond formulating redistributive policies, they locked in the minimalist pattern of redistribution by denying the poor the right to vote (pre-1945) and adopting an electoral system that muted their political voice after suffrage was obtained (post-1945). …
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UNEQUAL EXPERIENCES: HOW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS SHAPE PEOPLE¿S ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY
… of inequality, justice ideologies, and redistributive preferences. Through three empirical studies, this research underlines the centrality of meso-level dynamics to attitude formation by pointing to the role of network diversity, status, and size as drivers of individual views. Chapter …
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Beyond Divergence: Socioeconomic Status and Perceived Income Inequality in China
… income inequality, and have stronger demands for redistributive policies while those in the highest strata express attitudes that suggest indifference to this issue. The divergence in perceptions of income inequality and redistributive preferences between people from the elite and the bottom can …
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The economic impacts of sub-Saharan Africa urban real estate policies
Justification for policies, whether in the field of real estate or others is conditional on their ability to stimulate markets to contribute positively to economic growth by promoting efficient allocation of the resources they affect. Yet outcomes of policies though crucial are not self-evident and …
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Fight or Flight? Democratic Consolidation and Capital Flight in Latin America
… by social movements directed towards new redistributive public policies and in opposition to pro-market democratically elected governments. Typically, as mass mobilization strengthens, Leftist parties embrace the aims of popular movements whose electoral support subsequently increases to …
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Institutions and economic development
… results show that democracy causes reforms in redistributive policies, trade liberalisation and credit market deregulation. In the next Chapter, we consider the institutional barriers as compared to natural barrier and at-the-board barriers as determinants of bilateral FDI. The augmented …
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth at Different Stages of Development: An Eclectic Approach
… accelerating growth. In these economies, fiscal policies aiming to maximise savings are more supportive of growth as this raises investible funds for capital accumulation (Lewis, 1954). Developed countries, where the capital-labour ratio is high, however, are usually adversely impacted by a …
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Motivational Strategies, Conditional Welfare and Distributive Justice
… to address the behavioral obstacles of various redistributive schemes, in particular, in the case of income redistribution policies and the provision of essential services. I intend to show that negative inducements can have some advantages with reference to other motivational instruments. For …
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Evaluating the impact of the urban heat island on public health: Spatial and social determinants of heat-related mortality in New York City
… of White population. These findings suggest that redistributive policies to improve the housing conditions of elderly residents could play a role in reducing heat-related mortality in New York City, although these policies are not yet explicitly considered as part of climate adaptive planning. …