GV 507: Lectures on Political Competition and Welfare
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1 The Economic Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Representative Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1 Policy Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Campaigning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5 Equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.6 The Downsian Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.7 The Citizen-Candidate Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.8 Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 Normative Analysis of Political Equilibria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.1 Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.2 Distributional Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4 Dynamic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.1 An approach to politico-economic equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.2 Policy Making in the Dynamic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.2.1 Failure to Commit to Future Compensation . . . . . . . . 33 4.2.2 Strategic Policy Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.2.3 Aggregate Capital Accumulation and Political Equilibrium 36
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تاریخ انتشار 1999