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Is there a Green Dividend of National Redistribution?

CO2 emissions are disproportionately caused by more affluent consumers. In the political debate, this fact has triggered the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes not only to reduce ... a footprint of less than 10 tons. In the political debate, these asymmetric emissions trigger the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes to reduce emissions by decreasing inequality. The

Combined and distributional effects of EPL reduction and hiring incentives: an assessment using the Italian “Jobs Act”

After two decades of labour market reforms at the margin, the great recession created political scope to reduce the employment protection still benefitting the workers on open-ended contracts. To ... countries (Eichhorst et al. 2017) , and in particular where pressure to reduce the public debt created the political capital to proceed to unprecedented reduction of employment protection legislation

Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia

country like Indonesia, with the political philosophy of Pancasila that emphasizes social justice to all Indonesian citizens (Gibson 2017:11) . The paper is structured as follows. Section  2 discusses ... Classification D 0 1 0 Kiel Centre for Globalization, Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Kiel , Germany 1 Department of Socioeconomics, Institute for International Political Economy, Vienna University of

Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?

Squire (1998) for imperfect capital model, Alesina and Rodrik (1994) and Persson and Tabellini (1994) for political economy models of redistribution, Alesina and Perotti (1996) and Rodrik (1999 ... ) for socio-political conflict model, and Keefer and Knack (2002) and Easterly, Ritzen, and Woolcock (2006 ) for models of democratisation). For the effects of economic inequality on democratic

Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

. See also Hendren (2014) . The contribution of our paper is to examine the evolution of political preferences for redistribution in Sweden during 1971–2012, providing a detailed description of the ... Jacobs et al. (2017) analyze the political preferences for redistribution of Dutch political parties. Hendren (2014) develops a general approach to compare income distributions recognizing the cost to

Book reviews

modeling complex systems. His PhD in applied mathematics combined with his extensive work in social and political philosophy makes Molander a particularly well-equipped scholar to study inequality as a ... review here. The author sees inequality as a natural outcome emerging out of social, economic and political processes. In a given context it has its own specific evolution which can be, and often is

Conflict mediation in SUS as a transformative political action

This research aimed to analyze mediation processes in labor disputes, within the public institution and manager of the Unified Health System of Belo Horizonte - Municipal Health Department of Belo Horizonte (SMSA-SUS-BH) and conducted by the Human Resources and Health Education Office (GGTE) pertaining to the institution itself from 2012 to 2015. The analysis was addressed to the...

Political and operational challenges in the perception of managers on health regionalization in Acre

on the political and operational challenges of the implementation of regionalization in health in the state of Acre. For this, three focus groups were carried out with the municipal health secretaries

Political and operational challenges in the perception of managers on health regionalization in Acre

entities in health regions through shared management. This article analyzes the perceptions of the municipal managers on the political and operational challenges of the implementation of regionalization in

The global distribution of gains from globalization

, we focus on the ‘economic’ rather than on the ‘political’ or ‘social’ dimension of globalization (Gygli et al. 2019; Keohane and Nye 2000) . Research generally underlines that the concept of ... According to prominent findings in the political-science literature, policies ‘diffuse’ across borders due to learning, competition, and emulation processes (e.g., Simmons et al. 2006) . Hence, the

Popular Pharmacy Program of Brazil: a political analysis of its origin, unfoldings and inflections

The article refers to a qualitative research that analyzes the origins, unfoldings, results and challenges of the Brazilian Popular Pharmacy Program, in view of the necessary integrality of pharmaceutical assistance. For the production of the data, documents and semi-structured interviews were used with informants involved with the Brazilian Health Reform movement and the issue...

The political-juridical forms of the State in contemporary capitalism and fiscal waivers in health

When analyzing the health situation in Brazil, one can notice the reinforcement of a logic that turns the right to health assistance into a hostage of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. From this perspective, the waiver of tax collection in health in the Brazilian State stands out, leading to tax exemptions that result from the deduction of expenses with health insurance...

The political-juridical forms of the State in contemporary capitalism and fiscal waivers in health

When analyzing the health situation in Brazil, one can notice the reinforcement of a logic that turns the right to health assistance into a hostage of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. From this perspective, the waiver of tax collection in health in the Brazilian State stands out, leading to tax exemptions that result from the deduction of expenses with health insurance...

Reflections about deliberative democracy: contributions to health councils in a context of political crisis

councils face a process of institutional delegitimization that can subtract their importance in the decision-making process, a risk enhanced by the political crisis that the country is experiencing. For ... . Democracia e Padrões de Governo em 36 Países. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2003. [ Links ] MANIN, B. On Legitimacy and Political Delibaeration. Political Theory, Beverly Hills, v. 15, n 3, p. 388

Reflections about deliberative democracy: contributions to health councils in a context of political crisis

councils face a process of institutional delegitimization that can subtract their importance in the decision-making process, a risk enhanced by the political crisis that the country is experiencing. For ... . Democracia e Padrões de Governo em 36 Países. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2003. [ Links ] MANIN, B. On Legitimacy and Political Delibaeration. Political Theory, Beverly Hills, v. 15, n 3, p. 388

Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques

debatable in the literature. The literature survey suggests that four main theories, namely, credit-market imperfection, political economy, socio-political unrest, and savings rate, are being used to debate ... the effect of income inequality on economic growth (Barro 2000; Perotti 1996) . Among these theories, the political economy and social unrest theories suggest that income inequality harms economic