The political economy of voting: wealth, taxation, and redistribution, a new research project
The political economy of voting: wealth, taxation, and redistribution, a new research project from Sciences Po gets funding from Paris’ research program “Emergence(s)”. Since the famous word of Bill Clinton « It’s the economy, stupid » in 1992, the impact of the economy on elections is a well-established fact. Political science and economics have proposed a theory of economic voting. This project aims at filing in some gaps of this literature. For instance, this project involves taking into account not only voters’ revenues but also voters’ [...]