Arbeitspapier
Regime Type, Inequality, and Redistributive Transfers in Developing Countries
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We construct a model that predicts a higher probability of redistribution in democracies than in autocracies. Further, with higher initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these predictions using data on social transfers in developing countries for the period 1960-2010. We confirm that democracy increases redistribution and, to some extent, that there is more redistribution with rising inequality. Hence, on the basis of a direct measure of redistribution, we present evidence to confirm the median voter theorem.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GIGA Working Papers ; No. 273
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- Thema
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regime type
inequality
redistribution
median voter theorem
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dodlova, Marina
Giolbas, Anna
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
- (wo)
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Hamburg
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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01.10.2024, 08:02 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Dodlova, Marina
- Giolbas, Anna
- German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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