Projektnummer

0070943

Zusammenfassung

Literature has established that public policies are crucial for the incomes of the wealthy and suggests policies are biased towards the preferences of better-off citizens. This project studies the role of politician characteristics for developing policies that may systematically favor the wealthy. The key questions are: How well do politicians' social and economic characteristics align with those of economic elites? How does this affect policy making? What are the consequences for the incomes of the wealthy? Answering these questions will bring crucial insights into the political mechanisms be...