Vincent A Mahler
Biographic Data
| ID | 383787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent A Mahler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahler |
| SIGNATURE | MAHLER V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Fiscal Redistribution in Comparative Perspective
Electoral Turnout and State Redistribution
This study explores the relationship between electoral participation and income redistribution by way of social transfers, using data from the European Social Survey, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and the Luxembourg Income Study. It extends previous research by measuring the income skew of turnout rather than using average turnout as a proxy for its income bias. We find that, controlling for a number of other variables, the income s…
Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries
This chapter explores the relationship between political participation and income redistribution in high-income countries, with particular focus on middle-income groups. The first part describes government redistribution as it affects the second, third, and fourth income quintile groups, employing data from the LIS Database. The second conducts a cross-national analysis that considers the sources of variation in redistribution toward and away fro…
Comparing Government Redistribution Across Countries
Objective. We offer an alternative to the conventional measure of government redistribution that seeks to address problems of second‐order effects whereby income guarantees arising from public pensions make it less necessary for people to save for their retirement, rendering the “pregovernment” counterfactual to the observed postgovernment distribution unrealistic. Method. We use household‐level data from the Luxembourg Income Study to calculate …
Government Inequality Reduction in Comparative Perspective
This article offers an empirical assessment of a number of aspects of the reduction of market income inequality as a result of government taxes and transfers, and of the distributive effect of wage-bargaining institutions and minimum wages, in thirteen developed countries over the last twenty five years. It considers five broad themes in the literature: the median voter approach, which argues that government redistribution is associated with ineq…
Electoral support for extreme right-wing parties
Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state
This article explores the sources of variation in state redistribution across 13 developed democracies over the period 1979–2000, drawing upon data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Luxembourg Income Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. The discussion begins with the median voter hypothesis, which predicts that the extent of state redistribution in a country will be positively related to…
On Providing and Enforcing Basic Security
Etzioni offers a well-argued critique of recent trends in U.S. foreign policy that the author finds, in the main, persuasive. There are, though, a few points that seem somewhat overstated
Fiscal redistribution in the developed countries
This paper offers a detailed discussion of fiscal redistribution in developed countries, employing data that have been computed from the LIS's micro-level database. LIS data are detailed enough to allow us not only to measure overall redistribution but also to explore whether redistribution has been achieved primarily through taxes or transfers; to determine whether it is associated with the size or the internal target efficiency of social benefi…
Economic Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Income Inequality in the Developed Countries
This article assesses the impact of economic globalization and domestic political factors on income inequality and state redistribution in the developed countries over the past two decades, using household-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study that are more detailed, accurate, and cross-nationally comparable than those used in previous empirical work. It examines three major modes of international integration—trade, direct foreign investmen…
Exploring the Subnational Dimension of Income Inequality
This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the subnational dimension of income inequality, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. The paper undertakes two basic tasks. First, it describes the results of calculations on household-level income data that produce indicators of intra- and inter-household inequality for 191 regions in 12 developed countries for the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for 149 regions in 8 countries for the mid-1990s…
Economics and Public Support for the European Union
The intention of this paper is to explore the sources of public attitudes toward the European Union over the last two decades, using cumulative data available from the Eurobarometer series of public opinion polls. The basic question addressed is whether attitudes are affected by short-term trends in economic well-being and tangible benefits from EU membership, or whether they instead manifest broader and more durable support for integration. The …
Exploring the Impact of Trade and Investment on Income Inequality
This article explores the relationship between international integration and domestic inequality in the developed countries in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. The analysis examines two major modes of integration, trade and direct investment, disaggregating each by economic sector and distinguishing between imports and exports, and inbound and outbound flows and stocks. In measuring income inequality, extensive use is made of micro-data sets that h…
Global Transformation and the Third World. Robert O. Slater , Barry M. Schutz , Steven R. Dorr Europe and Africa
The Lomé convention
This paper examines the Lomé Convention, an institutional relationship linking the twelve members of the European Community (EC) with sixty‐nine countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The immediate aim of the paper is to take stock of the EC‐ACP relationship now that Lomé has been in effect for nearly two decades and has recently been the subject of extensive renegotiations. More broadly, Lomé provides a window on one of the …
Measuring public sector size in the advanced market economy countries
Three Views of the Latin American Debt Crisis
This paper examines the Latin American debt crisis from the perspective of three major participants: private and official creditors, the debtors themselves and the US government. Wide differences in the views of these participants on the origins and current status of the crisis help to explain its intractability. The intention of the paper is to offer an account of the broader economic and political context from which the three perspectives arise…
Domestic & International Sources of Trade Policy
Agricultural trade policy has long been a source of tension between the European Community and the United States. This article examines the reasons for these differences, exploring explanations that have centered on market forces, on domestic social and political interests and institutions, on the international system, and on the ideas and individuals involved. The author concludes that all of these have been factors in the complex relations betw…
Books in review
Power, Protection, and Free Trade
Income Distribution within Nations
In recent years a large number of cross-national studies have examined the causes and consequences of income inequality within nations. Unfortunately, few of these studies have attended very carefully to problems of measurement and definitional consistency that can seriously undermine the comparative use of currently available data on income shares. This article offers a discussion of the major theoretical and practical problems that can arise in…
Social Benefits in Advanced Capitalist Countries
One of the most striking characteristics of the state in the advanced capitalist democracies is the role it plays in the allocation of disposable income. Government policy has, of course, always influenced income distribution through regulation and the provision of public goods, but redistribution is a by-product of such activity, which seeks primarily to accomplish other ends. In contrast, a distinguishing feature of the modem welfare state is i…
The Impact of Taxes in Developed Capitalist Countries
A research question of perennial interest is, “What are the exogenous variables which best account for the differential distribution of income across nations?” Better understanding of the causes of inequalities in income distribution has been sought by investigating the effects of tax policies on income allocation and growth in capitalist countries. The quantitative analyses of these matters have engendered some debate about the adequacy of data,…
The political economy of North-South commodity bargaining
The historically unstable world trade in sugar has long stimulated multilateral efforts to stabilize sugar prices. In the negotiations leading to the International Sugar Agreement (ISA) of 1977, both producers and consumers were willing to make short-term concessions in the interest of reaching an accord that would benefit all in the long run–a pattern that has hardly been typical of North-South bargaining in general. But the ISA has failed to ac…
The Impact of Taxes on Growth and Distribution in Developed Capitalist Countries
Has the scope of public planning in contemporary capitalist economies promoted or hindered economic growth and income distribution? We explore this question by assessing the impact of various mechanisms for raising government revenues on investment, growth, and income distribution in 22 developed market economy countries. The article considers whether growth and distribution are affected differently by governments' relative reliance on personal a…
Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state
This article explores the sources of variation in state redistribution across 13 developed democracies over the period 1979–2000, drawing upon data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Luxembourg Income Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. The discussion begins with the median voter hypothesis, which predicts that the extent of state redistribution in a country will be positively related to…
Economic Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Income Inequality in the Developed Countries
This article assesses the impact of economic globalization and domestic political factors on income inequality and state redistribution in the developed countries over the past two decades, using household-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study that are more detailed, accurate, and cross-nationally comparable than those used in previous empirical work. It examines three major modes of international integration—trade, direct foreign investmen…
Electoral support for extreme right-wing parties
Exploring the Subnational Dimension of Income Inequality
This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the subnational dimension of income inequality, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. The paper undertakes two basic tasks. First, it describes the results of calculations on household-level income data that produce indicators of intra- and inter-household inequality for 191 regions in 12 developed countries for the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for 149 regions in 8 countries for the mid-1990s…
Fiscal redistribution in the developed countries
This paper offers a detailed discussion of fiscal redistribution in developed countries, employing data that have been computed from the LIS's micro-level database. LIS data are detailed enough to allow us not only to measure overall redistribution but also to explore whether redistribution has been achieved primarily through taxes or transfers; to determine whether it is associated with the size or the internal target efficiency of social benefi…
Economics and Public Support for the European Union
The intention of this paper is to explore the sources of public attitudes toward the European Union over the last two decades, using cumulative data available from the Eurobarometer series of public opinion polls. The basic question addressed is whether attitudes are affected by short-term trends in economic well-being and tangible benefits from EU membership, or whether they instead manifest broader and more durable support for integration. The …
The Impact of Taxes on Growth and Distribution in Developed Capitalist Countries
Has the scope of public planning in contemporary capitalist economies promoted or hindered economic growth and income distribution? We explore this question by assessing the impact of various mechanisms for raising government revenues on investment, growth, and income distribution in 22 developed market economy countries. The article considers whether growth and distribution are affected differently by governments' relative reliance on personal a…
Electoral Turnout and State Redistribution
This study explores the relationship between electoral participation and income redistribution by way of social transfers, using data from the European Social Survey, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and the Luxembourg Income Study. It extends previous research by measuring the income skew of turnout rather than using average turnout as a proxy for its income bias. We find that, controlling for a number of other variables, the income s…
Exploring the Impact of Trade and Investment on Income Inequality
This article explores the relationship between international integration and domestic inequality in the developed countries in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. The analysis examines two major modes of integration, trade and direct investment, disaggregating each by economic sector and distinguishing between imports and exports, and inbound and outbound flows and stocks. In measuring income inequality, extensive use is made of micro-data sets that h…
Mining, Agriculture, and Manufacturing
In recent years a great deal of attention has been directed to the application of multivariate statistical methods to the assessment of dependency approaches to North-South relations. This article attempts to contribute to the debate with an effort at specificity. It concentrates closely upon a single mode of North-South interaction, private direct foreign investment, and explores the consequences of investment holdings differentiated into three …
Comparing Government Redistribution Across Countries
Objective. We offer an alternative to the conventional measure of government redistribution that seeks to address problems of second‐order effects whereby income guarantees arising from public pensions make it less necessary for people to save for their retirement, rendering the “pregovernment” counterfactual to the observed postgovernment distribution unrealistic. Method. We use household‐level data from the Luxembourg Income Study to calculate …
The political economy of North-South commodity bargaining
The historically unstable world trade in sugar has long stimulated multilateral efforts to stabilize sugar prices. In the negotiations leading to the International Sugar Agreement (ISA) of 1977, both producers and consumers were willing to make short-term concessions in the interest of reaching an accord that would benefit all in the long run–a pattern that has hardly been typical of North-South bargaining in general. But the ISA has failed to ac…
Government Inequality Reduction in Comparative Perspective
This article offers an empirical assessment of a number of aspects of the reduction of market income inequality as a result of government taxes and transfers, and of the distributive effect of wage-bargaining institutions and minimum wages, in thirteen developed countries over the last twenty five years. It considers five broad themes in the literature: the median voter approach, which argues that government redistribution is associated with ineq…
Income Distribution within Nations
In recent years a large number of cross-national studies have examined the causes and consequences of income inequality within nations. Unfortunately, few of these studies have attended very carefully to problems of measurement and definitional consistency that can seriously undermine the comparative use of currently available data on income shares. This article offers a discussion of the major theoretical and practical problems that can arise in…
Britain, the European Community, and the developing Commonwealth
During the last decade dependency theory has emerged as an important, if highly controversial, perspective on contemporary North-South relations. This paper assesses the utility of dependency approaches by examining one concrete North-South relationship over an extended period, that between Commonwealth cane sugar producers and Great Britain. After detailing the origins of the colonial sugar trade and the later impact of British free trade polici…
The Lomé convention
This paper examines the Lomé Convention, an institutional relationship linking the twelve members of the European Community (EC) with sixty‐nine countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The immediate aim of the paper is to take stock of the EC‐ACP relationship now that Lomé has been in effect for nearly two decades and has recently been the subject of extensive renegotiations. More broadly, Lomé provides a window on one of the …
Social Benefits in Advanced Capitalist Countries
One of the most striking characteristics of the state in the advanced capitalist democracies is the role it plays in the allocation of disposable income. Government policy has, of course, always influenced income distribution through regulation and the provision of public goods, but redistribution is a by-product of such activity, which seeks primarily to accomplish other ends. In contrast, a distinguishing feature of the modem welfare state is i…
Britain, the European Community, and the developing Commonwealth
During the last decade dependency theory has emerged as an important, if highly controversial, perspective on contemporary North-South relations. This paper assesses the utility of dependency approaches by examining one concrete North-South relationship over an extended period, that between Commonwealth cane sugar producers and Great Britain. After detailing the origins of the colonial sugar trade and the later impact of British free trade polici…
Mining, Agriculture, and Manufacturing
In recent years a great deal of attention has been directed to the application of multivariate statistical methods to the assessment of dependency approaches to North-South relations. This article attempts to contribute to the debate with an effort at specificity. It concentrates closely upon a single mode of North-South interaction, private direct foreign investment, and explores the consequences of investment holdings differentiated into three …
The Impact of Taxes on Growth and Distribution in Developed Capitalist Countries
Has the scope of public planning in contemporary capitalist economies promoted or hindered economic growth and income distribution? We explore this question by assessing the impact of various mechanisms for raising government revenues on investment, growth, and income distribution in 22 developed market economy countries. The article considers whether growth and distribution are affected differently by governments' relative reliance on personal a…
The political economy of North-South commodity bargaining
The historically unstable world trade in sugar has long stimulated multilateral efforts to stabilize sugar prices. In the negotiations leading to the International Sugar Agreement (ISA) of 1977, both producers and consumers were willing to make short-term concessions in the interest of reaching an accord that would benefit all in the long run–a pattern that has hardly been typical of North-South bargaining in general. But the ISA has failed to ac…
The Impact of Taxes in Developed Capitalist Countries
A research question of perennial interest is, “What are the exogenous variables which best account for the differential distribution of income across nations?” Better understanding of the causes of inequalities in income distribution has been sought by investigating the effects of tax policies on income allocation and growth in capitalist countries. The quantitative analyses of these matters have engendered some debate about the adequacy of data,…
Social Benefits in Advanced Capitalist Countries
One of the most striking characteristics of the state in the advanced capitalist democracies is the role it plays in the allocation of disposable income. Government policy has, of course, always influenced income distribution through regulation and the provision of public goods, but redistribution is a by-product of such activity, which seeks primarily to accomplish other ends. In contrast, a distinguishing feature of the modem welfare state is i…
Power, Protection, and Free Trade
Income Distribution within Nations
In recent years a large number of cross-national studies have examined the causes and consequences of income inequality within nations. Unfortunately, few of these studies have attended very carefully to problems of measurement and definitional consistency that can seriously undermine the comparative use of currently available data on income shares. This article offers a discussion of the major theoretical and practical problems that can arise in…
Books in review
Domestic & International Sources of Trade Policy
Agricultural trade policy has long been a source of tension between the European Community and the United States. This article examines the reasons for these differences, exploring explanations that have centered on market forces, on domestic social and political interests and institutions, on the international system, and on the ideas and individuals involved. The author concludes that all of these have been factors in the complex relations betw…
Measuring public sector size in the advanced market economy countries
Three Views of the Latin American Debt Crisis
This paper examines the Latin American debt crisis from the perspective of three major participants: private and official creditors, the debtors themselves and the US government. Wide differences in the views of these participants on the origins and current status of the crisis help to explain its intractability. The intention of the paper is to offer an account of the broader economic and political context from which the three perspectives arise…
Global Transformation and the Third World. Robert O. Slater , Barry M. Schutz , Steven R. Dorr Europe and Africa
The Lomé convention
This paper examines the Lomé Convention, an institutional relationship linking the twelve members of the European Community (EC) with sixty‐nine countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The immediate aim of the paper is to take stock of the EC‐ACP relationship now that Lomé has been in effect for nearly two decades and has recently been the subject of extensive renegotiations. More broadly, Lomé provides a window on one of the …
Exploring the Impact of Trade and Investment on Income Inequality
This article explores the relationship between international integration and domestic inequality in the developed countries in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. The analysis examines two major modes of integration, trade and direct investment, disaggregating each by economic sector and distinguishing between imports and exports, and inbound and outbound flows and stocks. In measuring income inequality, extensive use is made of micro-data sets that h…
Economics and Public Support for the European Union
The intention of this paper is to explore the sources of public attitudes toward the European Union over the last two decades, using cumulative data available from the Eurobarometer series of public opinion polls. The basic question addressed is whether attitudes are affected by short-term trends in economic well-being and tangible benefits from EU membership, or whether they instead manifest broader and more durable support for integration. The …
Exploring the Subnational Dimension of Income Inequality
This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the subnational dimension of income inequality, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. The paper undertakes two basic tasks. First, it describes the results of calculations on household-level income data that produce indicators of intra- and inter-household inequality for 191 regions in 12 developed countries for the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for 149 regions in 8 countries for the mid-1990s…
Economic Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Income Inequality in the Developed Countries
This article assesses the impact of economic globalization and domestic political factors on income inequality and state redistribution in the developed countries over the past two decades, using household-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study that are more detailed, accurate, and cross-nationally comparable than those used in previous empirical work. It examines three major modes of international integration—trade, direct foreign investmen…
Fiscal redistribution in the developed countries
This paper offers a detailed discussion of fiscal redistribution in developed countries, employing data that have been computed from the LIS's micro-level database. LIS data are detailed enough to allow us not only to measure overall redistribution but also to explore whether redistribution has been achieved primarily through taxes or transfers; to determine whether it is associated with the size or the internal target efficiency of social benefi…
Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state
This article explores the sources of variation in state redistribution across 13 developed democracies over the period 1979–2000, drawing upon data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Luxembourg Income Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. The discussion begins with the median voter hypothesis, which predicts that the extent of state redistribution in a country will be positively related to…
On Providing and Enforcing Basic Security
Etzioni offers a well-argued critique of recent trends in U.S. foreign policy that the author finds, in the main, persuasive. There are, though, a few points that seem somewhat overstated
Electoral support for extreme right-wing parties
Comparing Government Redistribution Across Countries
Objective. We offer an alternative to the conventional measure of government redistribution that seeks to address problems of second‐order effects whereby income guarantees arising from public pensions make it less necessary for people to save for their retirement, rendering the “pregovernment” counterfactual to the observed postgovernment distribution unrealistic. Method. We use household‐level data from the Luxembourg Income Study to calculate …
Government Inequality Reduction in Comparative Perspective
This article offers an empirical assessment of a number of aspects of the reduction of market income inequality as a result of government taxes and transfers, and of the distributive effect of wage-bargaining institutions and minimum wages, in thirteen developed countries over the last twenty five years. It considers five broad themes in the literature: the median voter approach, which argues that government redistribution is associated with ineq…
Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries
This chapter explores the relationship between political participation and income redistribution in high-income countries, with particular focus on middle-income groups. The first part describes government redistribution as it affects the second, third, and fourth income quintile groups, employing data from the LIS Database. The second conducts a cross-national analysis that considers the sources of variation in redistribution toward and away fro…
Economics (24 works) · Political science (23 works) · Politics (15 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Income distribution (10 works) · Inequality (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Macroeconomics (9 works) · Development economics (8 works)