The Politics of Redistribution
A Reformulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3131275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard H Booms (Pennsylvania State University), James R Halldorson |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 924-933 |
| Publication date | 1973-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1958634 |
| OpenAlex | W2170988849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper offers a critique and a reformulation of Brian Fry and Richard Winters's policy output study published in this Review June, 1970. Fry and Winters focused on the redistributive impact of public policy in the states. After devising a "redistribution ratio" that involves allocating state revenue burdens and expenditure benefits to families across income classes, they developed a model to explain the variance of this ratio from state to state. In contrast to the findings of many earlier policy output studies, they hypothesized that political variables would have more explanatory power than socioeconomic variables.Unfortunately some methodological shortcomings detract from the potential value of the Fry and Winters study. In this paper, alternative methodologies are used to reformulate a redistribution ratio for each state, and the recalculated ratios are found to vary significantly from those obtained by Fry and Winters.The shortcomings of the Fry and Winters explanatory model are discussed. Despite these shortcomings, however, the regression analysis employed by Fry and Winters is repeated using the reformulated redistribution ratios in order to test the impact of this reformulation. Again the results obtained in this paper vary substantially from those of Fry and Winters
Econometrics · Economics · Explanatory power · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Redistribution (election · Revenue · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law
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Competition, Control and Spurious Covariation
The Relative Importance of Socioeconomic and Political Variables for Public Policy
Determinants of State Growth Management Policies
It's About Time
The "Content" of Welfare Policy
The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies
Toward A More Theoretical Foundation For Empirical Policy Analysis
The Diffusion of Legislation among the Canadian Provinces
The Importance of Political Factors in Explaining Northern School Desegregation
Local Politics and the Provision of Indigent Defense Counsel
Equity in the distribution of health and welfare services
Innovation in Mental Health Policy; Community Mental Health in the United States of America, 1965-1980
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy
Systematic, Political, and Socioeconomic Influences on Educational Spending in the American States1
Party and Policy in West German Cities
Competitive structure and fiscal policy
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2005 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |