Bevolent Planners, Malevolent Dictators and Democratic Voters
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Keywords
Leviathan; democracy; median voter; redistribution; public goods;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2006-06-24 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-PBE-2006-06-24 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2006-06-24 (Positive Political Economics)
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