Is German domestic social policy politically controversial?

Methods for constructing an opinion network for politically controversial topics

The US presidential race, the re-election of President Hugo Chavez, and the economic crisis in Greece and other European countries are some of the controversial topics being played on the news everyday. To understand the landscape of opinions on political controversies, it would be helpful to know which politician or other stakeholder takes which position support or opposition on specific aspec...

Politically sustainable social insurance

Private information underpins a basic social trade-off between incentives and inequality. Normative models of dynamic incentive provision explore the optimal evolution of this trade-off. Many prescribe relentlessly increasing levels of inequality. Indeed, under a variety of standard preference assumptions, an immiseration result obtains: a privileged measure zero set of agents obtain all resour...

Politically Credible Social Insurance

This paper considers political credibility of allocations in settings with dynamic private information. It embeds a benchmark dynamic moral environment into political economy games which feature repeated voting over mechanisms. Optimal politically credible allocations are shown to solve virtual planning problems with social discount factors in excess of the private one. JEL codes: C73, D72, D82...

Opinions on Controversial Policy Issues

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