redistributive policy

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policy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us
/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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(Definition ofpolicyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is so because most of us are members of groups of persons whose expected benefits would increase if a non-member followed aredistributivepolicy.
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In the absence of classical distributive means, theredistributivepolicyof the government in favor of its sociopolitical supporters has been effectuated by extrabudgetary activities.
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First, suppose governmentredistributivepolicyremains stable.
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Poor states will be unable to participate in a concertedredistributivepolicyunless supported by equalisation arrangements.
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I recognise that that has now gone and that we cannot hope to have aredistributivepolicyfor a prices and incomes policy.
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It is not aredistributivepolicy.
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However, in practice we do observe subnational governments and insurance institutions operating redistributive policies.
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We argued in the introduction that fiscal competition is a key constraint on the ability of devolved institutions to implement redistributive policies.
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We would expect, a priori, that local governments and autonomous institutions cannot implement their own redistributive policies under conditions of labour and capital mobility.
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Expectations based on class theory might predict greater support for extensive, universal and redistributive policies from the working class compared with the middles class.
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Redistributive policies would interfere with the free working of the market, reducing aggregate welfare.
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Be that as it may, libertarians can resort to the 'until redistribution' baseline to oppose many usual redistributive policies that arguably benefit some non-threatened people.
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I do not claim that federal structures per se inherently impede redistributive policies or protective labor legislation.
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Frustrated by economic stagnation, many middleclass workers supported the reform of these redistributive policies for which they did not qualify but which their taxes funded.
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This hardly seems an appropriate prescription in contemporary conditions of decline in support for redistributive policies and the reduced power of organised labour.
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This need not imply that political change has no effect on redistributive policies.
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We began with the hypothesis that subnational governments and autonomous institutions are constrained in implementing their own redistributive policies.
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Other situations in which divergent interests are evident include structural adjustment policies and expressly redistributive policies, which inevitably affect negatively those groups which are economically and often politically strongest.
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How we should feel about redistributive policies, for example, has been made clear by all governments since the late 1970s: they are said to stifle enterprise and contribute to indolence.
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Our question is whether a state's redistributive policies can be seen as enforcing antecedent moral duties to aid, over and above other reasons for or against such policies.
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