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Heterogeneous Preferences And Provision Of Public Goods, Francesco Scervini, Luna Bellani
Heterogeneous Preferences And Provision Of Public Goods, Francesco Scervini, Luna Bellani
Francesco Scervini
This paper examines the role of social classes’ cleavages on in-kind redistribution. In presence of heterogeneous income as well as heterogeneous preferences over the types of public goods provided, the total amount of redistribution depends on the distance between those preferences. Under very general assumptions, we describe an environment in which the more a society is fractionalized, the less redistribution we can expect. In particular, with respect to the baseline model with heterogeneous incomes but homogeneous preferences over public goods, social distance decreases the amount of public goods preferred by all individuals. Our paper innovates the previous literature on this …
Asymmetries In Political Representation And The Power Of The Median Voter, Francesco Scervini
Asymmetries In Political Representation And The Power Of The Median Voter, Francesco Scervini
Francesco Scervini
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Endogenous Party Formation And The Inequality-Redistribution Nexus, Francesco Scervini
Endogenous Party Formation And The Inequality-Redistribution Nexus, Francesco Scervini
Francesco Scervini
Several reasons have been suggested to be the causes of the weak link between inequality and redistribution. The aim of the present paper is to investigate a new one, based on the endogeneity of party formation and the lack of representation in indirect democracies. Cre- ation and maintenance of political parties is a costly activity and it is possible that some classes of population cannot afford it and therefore are under-represented. This could help in explaining why the median voter theories seem to fail in predicting the amount of redistribution as dependent on the level of inequality. Moreover, in this …