Title: Redistribution Policy - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Redistribution Policy
Redistribution Policy
The Middle Class Joins the Game
5.2 What does economic theory have to say?
Optimal Federalism
Redistribution, the Competition Problem, and Potential Incompatibilities
Inequality
Abstract
Welfare Reform
Active Distribution Policy
A General Equilibrium Model for Public Sector Analysis
Lump-Sum Redistributions
Deforestation
Global-Scale Influences
Handbook of Income Distribution
1.3.4.2 The Benefit Principle of Taxation
Handbook of Income Distribution
19.2 The Research Question and Methods to Explain Inequality and its Change
19.2.1 The Structure of the Research Question
19.2.2 Notes on the Arguments and Parts of the Grand Inequality Regression Equation (GIRE)
Preferential Trade Agreements
5.1.2 Nontraditional
5.1.2.1 Endogenous Trade Policy
5.1.2.2 Deeper Trade Policy Cooperation and Bargaining Externalities
5.1.2.3 Broader Economic Motives
5.1.2.4 Nonpecuniary International Externalities

Content: This model also supposes that individuals are rational and there is no risk aversion or uncertainty as to the aggregate result of the reform. Add to the basic scenario all the additional real-life features, along with the costs of collective action for those who want to end privileges, and you have a scenario even more favorable to the preservation of the status quo. Mechanisms to create and preserve rents, once established, are able to perpetuate themselves. Since there are no means to credibly coordinate collective action to end rent seeking by each individual group, the best strategy is to try to increase the rent it extracts for itself, which results in an ever-increasing demand for rents and privileges made to the government. In this dispute, the groups with the advantage are those with the above mentioned attributes: they are numerous and homogeneous; have privileged access to political institutions where decisions are taken; are able to solve collective action problems; and that vote more frequently, or who simply have the right to vote. A refining of the argument presented in Chapter 4 regarding the redistribution models for the poor should be noted here.