Buying votes with discriminative support for renewable energy technologies
This paper uses a political economy model to explain the discriminative support for some renewable technologies like photovoltaic. A two party model is used to show how subsidies for technologies that are installed by household voters can incentivise swing voters to vote for a party. It is in the in...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | CES - Discussion paper series 2015, p.1-25 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper uses a political economy model to explain the discriminative support for some renewable technologies like photovoltaic. A two party model is used to show how subsidies for technologies that are installed by household voters can incentivise swing voters to vote for a party. It is in the interest of both the incumbent and the opposition party to propose discriminative support, even if it is highly inefficient. |
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