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Taxes, Budgetary Rule and Majority Voting

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  • Helmuth Cremer

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  • Philippe De Donder
  • Firouz Gahvari

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This paper studies majority voting outcomes for a specific class of two-dimensional policies. One policy instrument influences efficiency and the other redistribution. Absent the political process, the two dimensions can be addressed separately. With a two dimensional vote, the two aspects will interact in a non-trivial way. The illustrative policy we consider, requires taxing an externality-generating good and determining a budgetary rule which specifies the proportions of the tax proceeds that go to wage earners and to capital owners. We show: First, a sequential vote wherein the tax rate is determined first and the budgetary rule second, always possesses an equilibrium and that this equilibrium is the median-endowed individual's most-preferred policy. Second, the reverse sequential choice implies that the median-endowed individual may, but need not, be decisive. Third, the ``Shepsle procedure'' also implies that the equilibrium is the policy most favored by the median individual. Fourth, this equilibrium constitutes, under certain circumstances, the Condorcet winner for the unrestricted simultaneous voting game.

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Public Choice.

Volume (Year): 119 (2004)
Issue (Month): 3_4 (06)
Pages: 335-358

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Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:119:y:2004:i:3_4:p:335-358

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  1. De Donder, Philippe & Le Breton, Michel & Peluso, Eugenio, 2012. "Majority Voting in Multidimensional Policy Spaces: Kramer-Shepsle versus Stackelberg," Open Access publications from University of Toulouse 1 Capitole http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole.
  2. Vincent Anesi & Philippe De Donder, 2011. "Secondary issues and party politics: an application to environmental policy," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 36(3), pages 519-546, April.
  3. Fredriksson, Per G. & Wang, Le & Mamun, Khawaja A., 2011. "Are politicians office or policy motivated? The case of U.S. governors' environmental policies," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 62(2), pages 241-253, September.
  4. Cremer, Helmuth & De Donder, Philippe & Gahvari, Firouz, 2005. "Political competition within and between parties: an application to environmental policy," CEPR Discussion Papers 5228, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Helmuth Cremer & Philippe De Donder & Firouz Gahvari, 2007. "Energy Taxes in Three Political Economy Models," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 7(1), pages 32.

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