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Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions / Garance Genicot, Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Genicot, Garance.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25205.
- NBER working paper series no. w25205
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- This paper studies the political determinants of inequality in government interventions under the majoritarian and proportional representation systems. Using a model of electoral competition with targetable government intervention and heterogeneous localities, we uncover a novel relative electoral sensitivity effect in majoritarian systems. This effect, which depends on the geographic distribution of voters, can incentivize parties to allocate resources more equally under majoritarian systems than proportional representation systems. This contrasts with the conventional wisdom that government interventions are more unequal in majoritarian systems.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2018.
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