Title: | Just Don’t Call it a Tax! | Other Titles: | Framing in an Experiment on Voting and Redistribution | Authors: | Lorenz, Jan Paetzel, Fabian Tepe, Markus |
Language: | eng | Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press | Document Type: | Article | Source: | Enthalten in: Journal of experimental political science. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014- ; ZDB-ID: 2765224-5 . - Bd. 4.2017, 4, Seite 183-194 | Journal / Series / Working Paper (HSU): | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Volume: | 4 | Issue: | 3 | Page Start: | 183 | Page End: | 194 | Publisher Place: | Cambridge | 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. |
Organization Units (connected with the publication): | Volkswirtschaftslehre, insb. Behavioral Economics | Publisher DOI: | 10.1017/XPS.2016.7 |
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