redistributive policy

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However, in practice we do observe subnational governments and insurance institutions operating redistributive policies.
We argued in the introduction that fiscal competition is a key constraint on the ability of devolved institutions to implement redistributive policies.
We would expect, a priori, that local governments and autonomous institutions cannot implement their own redistributive policies under conditions of labour and capital mobility.
Expectations based on class theory might predict greater support for extensive, universal and redistributive policies from the working class compared with the middles class.
Redistributive policies would interfere with the free working of the market, reducing aggregate welfare.
Be that as it may, libertarians can resort to the 'until redistribution' baseline to oppose many usual redistributive policies that arguably benefit some non-threatened people.
I do not claim that federal structures per se inherently impede redistributive policies or protective labor legislation.
Frustrated by economic stagnation, many middleclass workers supported the reform of these redistributive policies for which they did not qualify but which their taxes funded.
This hardly seems an appropriate prescription in contemporary conditions of decline in support for redistributive policies and the reduced power of organised labour.
This need not imply that political change has no effect on redistributive policies.
We began with the hypothesis that subnational governments and autonomous institutions are constrained in implementing their own redistributive policies.
Other situations in which divergent interests are evident include structural adjustment policies and expressly redistributive policies, which inevitably affect negatively those groups which are economically and often politically strongest.
How we should feel about redistributive policies, for example, has been made clear by all governments since the late 1970s: they are said to stifle enterprise and contribute to indolence.
Our question is whether a state's redistributive policies can be seen as enforcing antecedent moral duties to aid, over and above other reasons for or against such policies.
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