Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and the Middle Class
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- Anirban Mitra & Shabana Mitra, 2017. "Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and The Middle Class," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 127(602), pages 1119-1152, June.
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Income distribution; polarization; political economy; targeting.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-10-04 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2015-10-04 (Positive Political Economics)
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