Title

Election Goals and Income Redistribution: Recent Evidence From Albania

Author(s)

Anne Case Anne Case (Princeton University)

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of political competition on block grants from federal to sub-federal levels of government. We model the extent and direction of income redistribution as determined proximately by the political agendas of central decisionmakers and, at a deeper level, by the institutions within which they find themselves operating. We contrast two institutional frameworks that give way to differing political objective functions and, in turn, to strikingly different empirical predictions of the ways in which politics should affect fiscal policy. Lessons learned here may prove important in understanding limits on the types of redistribution possible via block grants, given the institutional framework, in both developing and developed countries.

Creation Date

1997-04

Section URL ID

RPDS

Paper Number

Case_Election_Goals_and_Income_Redistribution_EER.pdf

URL

https://rpds.princeton.edu/sites/rpds/files/media/case_election_goals_and_income_redistribution_eer.pdf

File Function

Jel

P35, H77, D31, D72, O15, O17

Keyword(s)

Albania

Suppress

false

Series

5