Distributive Politics in a Strong Party System: Evidence from Canadian Job Grant Programs
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Keywords
majoritarian redistribution; distributive politics; public choice; Canada; HRDC; CJF; TJF;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
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2002-11-10 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2002-11-10 (Positive Political Economics)
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