Majority voting and progressivity

Marhuenda, Francisco; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio

Majority voting and progressivity

Author(s): Marhuenda, Francisco; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio

Publisher: Fundación Empresa Pública (Fundación SEPI)

Issued date: 1995

Citation: Investigaciones Económicas (1995), 19(3), pp. 469-473

ISSN: 0210-1521

Sponsor: Financial support from the Instituto Valenciana de Investigaciones Económicas and from the Ministry of Education projects nos. PB 93-0940 and PB 93-0938 is gratefully acknowledged.

Review: PeerReviewed

Publisher version: http://www.fundacionsepi.es/revistas/paperArchive/Sep1995/v19i3a7.pdf

JEL Classification: D27

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/4403

Abstract:

The popular support obtained by two parties who propose two qualitatively different tax schemes is analyzed. We show that if the median voter is below the mean, then the most progressive proposal wins. We also extend this result to other eletions for which wi [+]

Esta nota analiza el apoyo democrático obtenido por dos partidos que proponen dos políticas fiscales cualitativamente diferentes. Se demuestra que si la renta del votante mediano es menor que la renta media, entonces gana la propuesta fiscal mas progresiva. [+]

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