Just Don’t Call it a Tax!
Translated title
Framing in an Experiment on Voting and Redistribution
Publication date
2017
Document type
Research article
Author
Lorenz, Jan
Paetzel, Fabian
Tepe, Markus
Organisational unit
Series or journal
Journal of Experimental Political Science
Periodical volume
4
Periodical issue
3
First page
183
Last page
194
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
✅
Abstract
Utilizing a simplified version of the Meltzer–Richard redistribution mechanism, we designed a laboratory experiment to test whether it matters if voters were asked to decide on a tax rate or a minimum income, leaving the redistribution mechanism itself unchanged. Framing the vote about redistribution as a decision about a minimal income increases the individually and ideally preferred level of redistribution. This effect outlives the groups’ deliberation processes and leads to the implementation of a higher level of redistribution.
Cite as
Enthalten in: Journal of experimental political science. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014- ; ZDB-ID: 2765224-5 . - Bd. 4.2017, 4, Seite 183-194
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