Political Models of Redistribution
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To what extent do preferences for redistribution reflect the private self-interest of the voter? Many political economy models assume that once private self-interest is properly accounted for, the residual variation in preferences for redistribution is negligible. Many theories outside of the traditional political economy literature assume that private self-interest is one among several motivat...
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