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. The transfer payment is then determined by the government’s budget constraint. The equilibrium ratio of trans-fers to public good expenditure per person is expressed as a quadratic function both of the ratio of the median to the mean wage, and of the tax rate. Data for 29 democratic countries are used

The standard model of strategic tax competition assumes that government policymak-ers are perfectly benevolent. We depart from this assumption by allowing for the possibility that policymakers are infl uenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses. This extension implies

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Abstract: Local governments (LGs) are viable instruments of grass-roots political participation and socialization while elections are means of ensuring regular changes of governments. The main objective of this paper therefore, is to explore comparatively, the level of citizens ’ participation

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