% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw19498, title = "Left, Right, Left: Income, Learning and Political Dynamics", author = "John Morrow and Michael Carter", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "19498", year = "2013", month = "October", doi = {10.3386/w19498}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w19498", abstract = {The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income processes. The model implies support for redistributive policies materializes rapidly if few prospects of upward mobility are present. In contrast, modeling voters' ideologically charged beliefs about income dynamics shows a slow and polarizing shift toward redistributive preferences occurs. Simulation using fitted income dynamics suggests that imperfect information better accounts for the shift back to the left, and offers additional insights about political dynamics.}, }