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Buying votes with discriminative support for renewable energy technologies

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  • Lotte Ovaere
  • Stef Proost

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This paper uses a political economy model to explain the discriminative support for some renewable technologies like photovoltaic. A two party model is used to show how subsidies for technologies that are installed by household voters can incentivise swing voters to vote for a party. It is in the interest of both the incumbent and the opposition party to propose discriminative support, even if it is highly inefficient.

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  • Lotte Ovaere & Stef Proost, 2015. "Buying votes with discriminative support for renewable energy technologies," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven 489944, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
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    1. De Groote, Olivier & Gautier, Axel & Verboven, Frank, 2024. "The political economy of financing climate policy — Evidence from the solar PV subsidy programs," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

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