Buying Votes with Discriminative Support for Renewable-Energy Technologies

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, for example photovoltaic. A two-party model is used to show how subsidies for technologies that are installed by voting households can incentivize swing voters to vote for a party. It is...

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Veröffentlicht in:Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique 2015-10, Vol.54 (1-2), p.87
Hauptverfasser: Ovaere, Lotte, Proost, Stef
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Energy
Households
Political opposition
Political parties
Subsidies
Voter behavior
Voters
Voting
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Zusammenfassung:This paper uses a political-economy model to explain the discriminative support for some renewable technologies, for example photovoltaic. A two-party model is used to show how subsidies for technologies that are installed by voting households can incentivize 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. JEL-codes : P48, Q42, Q48, Q54
ISSN:0034-2971
1782-1509
DOI:10.3917/rpve.541.0087