Redistribution To the Poor: an Overheard Conversation

Robert D. Plotnick
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Robert D. Plotnick: University of Washington

Public Finance Review, 1986, vol. 14, issue 2, 223-228

Abstract: Why do we distribute income to the poor through government programs? Spokespersons for the median voter/interdependent preferences and interest group approaches to public policy determination present simple competing models. Their listener observes that the two models, based on quite different premises about voter preferences and how collective choices are made, yield identical testable implications.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1177/109114218601400207

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