Redistributing income under proportional representation : a correction
Abstract
Austen-Smith (2000) reports a theoretical result that if the cost of entering the workforce is sufficiently low, winner-take-all political systems induce endogenous redistribution levels that are systematically lower than those determined by proportional representation systems (Proposition 6). The proof in Austen-Smith (2000) has a mistake. We explain the mistake and offer an alternative proof. The conclusion of the original paper continues to hold.
Citation
Morelli , M & Negri , M 2019 , ' Redistributing income under proportional representation : a correction ' , Journal of Political Economy , vol. 127 , no. 1 , pp. 458-462 . https://doi.org/10.1086/700733
Publication
Journal of Political Economy
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0022-3808Type
Journal article
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