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On Rent Seeking and Inclusiveness

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Richard L. Carson () (Department of Economics, Carleton University)
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Using an extension of a standard rent-seeking model, this paper shows that "inclusiveness", as defined and measured in the text, is the property of a political system that motivates government to deter destructive rent seeking. Highly-inclusive polities are likely to be democracies since dictatorships lack a key prerequisite for inclusiveness. However, democracies are not necessarily highly inclusive.

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Paper provided by Carleton University, Department of Economics in its series Carleton Economic Papers with number 09-05.

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Length: 32 pages
Date of creation: 26 Aug 2009
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Publication status: Published: Carleton Economic Paper
Handle: RePEc:car:carecp:09-05

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Keywords: Rent seeking; inclusiveness;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
H19 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Other

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