Problem: Conventional wisdom in political science suggests PR electoral systems create redistributive tax-and-transfer policies favoring the poor. But empirical observation shows many PR countries rely on regressive consumption taxes and lightly tax profits.
New Insight: Countries with PR systems combined with trichotomous multipartism don't universally target redistribution downward; outcomes depend heavily on multinational labor market structures.
Data & Methods: Theoretical model evaluating implications for a world dominated by multinationals.
Focus is placed on understanding the interaction between electoral institutions and labor markets rather than direct empirical measurement.
| Taxing the Tails in a Global Economy: How Electoral, Party and Wage Bargaining Systems Interact to Determine the Taxes Paid by the Poor and Rich was authored by Jude Hays. It was published by Cambridge in BJPS in 2022. |
