Stanley L. Winer

Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy Emeritus

1125 Colonel By Drive

Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6

Canada

http://www.carleton.ca/winer

Carleton University-Department of Economics

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy Emeritus

1125 Colonel By Drive

Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6

Canada

http://www.carleton.ca/winer

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Poschinger Str. 5

Munich, DE-81679

Germany

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1.

Tax Systems in the World: An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Collection Costs, and Political Regime

Carleton Economic Working Paper No. 01-03, International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 13, 2006
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Aug 2001 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009
Lawrence W. Kenny and Stanley L. Winer
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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political economy of taxation, tax mix, tax bases, administration costs, political regime

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The Political Economy of Taxation: Positive and Normative Analysis When Collective Choice Matters

Carleton University, Economic Working Paper No. 02-11
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Stanley L. Winer and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics
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taxation, revenue structure, collective choice, democratic process, optimal tax

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Just How Much Bigger is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929-2004

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Dec 2006
J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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size of government, structure of public expenditure, comparative analysis, national accounts, Canada vs. United States

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Political Regimes, Institutions and the Nature of Tax Systems

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Apr 2010
Stanley L. Winer, Lawrence W. Kenny and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics
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tax structure, political regimes and institutions, political equilibria

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The Political Economy of Government Size

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Oct 2004
George Tridimas and Stanley L. Winer
University of Ulster - School of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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Size of government, coercive redistribution, political influence, probabilistic spatial voting

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Searching for Keynes: With Application to Canada, 1870-2000

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Apr 2004
J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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Keynesianism, liqidity constraints, the welfare state, permanent versus transitory government policy, political equilibrium, probabilistic voting

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The Political Economy of Taxation: Power, Structure, Redistribution

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6252
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Jan 2017
Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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taxation, Oxford Handbook, political economy, public choice, power to tax, tax structure, fiscal redistribution

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Environmental Regulation and Trade Openness in the Presence of Private Mitigation

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Environmental Regulation and Trade Openness in the Presence of Private Mitigation

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2010
Louis Hotte and Stanley L. Winer
University of Ottawa and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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Environmental regulation, Private mitigation, Trade; Dirty Goods, Individual Welfare, Health, Democracy, Representation Theorem

The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2509
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Dec 2008
Louis Hotte and Stanley L. Winer
University of Ottawa and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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regulation, environment, pollution, private mitigation, trade, welfare, health, collective choice

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Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of Government

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1646
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Feb 2006
J. Stephen Ferris, Soo-Bin Park and Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - Department of Economics, Carleton University - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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public expenditure, size of government, long run versus short run, opportunism, partisanship, political competition, cointegration

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Regulation and Taxation: Analyzing Policy Interdependence

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Nov 2005
Walter Hettich and Stanley L. Winer
California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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regulation, taxation, policy interdependence, political advertising, efficiency of political equilibrium

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In Defense of Majoritarianism

Across Boundaries: Essays in Honour of Robert A. Young. Edited by A. Blais, C deClercy, A. Esselment and R. Wintrobe (eds). McGill-Queen's University Press 2020. Chapter 12.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 May 2019 Last Revised: 08 May 2020
Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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electoral reform, majoritarianism, proportional representation, principle of representation, principle of responsibility, good government, proportionality, leap of faith, Canada

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Social Welfare and Coercion in Public Finance

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2482
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Ulster - School of Economics and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics
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coercion, redistribution, social planning, optimal fiscal policy, marginal cost of funds, public goods, collective choice

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Policy-Induced Internal Migration: An Empirical Investigation of the Canadian Case

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1605
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Dec 2005
Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L. Winer
University of Ottawa - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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migration, regional disparity, public policy, unemployment insurance, conditional logit, taxation data

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What Do We Know About the Relationship Between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3479
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Jun 2011
Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L. Winer
University of Ottawa - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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regional variation in unemployment insurance generosity, internal migration, interprovincial migration, earned income, comprehensive income differentials, index of insurance generosity, labour market attachment, conditional logit model

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Consumption Versus Income Taxation: Three Moments in the Political Economy of Fiscal Choice

Public Finance and Management, Symposium on Heterogeneity and Public Policy, Vol. 9, Nos. 2/3, 2009
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 21 Apr 2010
Stanley L. Winer, George Warskett and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, affiliation not provided to SSRN and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics
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tax structure, moments of key distributions, political equilibria

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Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of the Public Sector

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Nov 2005
J. Stephen Ferris, Soo-Bin Park and Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - Department of Economics, Carleton University - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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public expenditure, size of government, long run versus short run, opportunism, partisanship, political competition, cointegration

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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment When Citizens Can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3241
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Nov 2010
Sophie Bernard, Sophie Bernard, Louis Hotte and Stanley L. Winer
Polytechnique MontrealCIRANO and École Polytechnique de Montréal, University of Ottawa and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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pollution, environmental regulation, private mitigation, income inequality, democracy, trade, welfare, collective choice, political economy

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Fiscal Incidence When Both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home-Care for the Elderly

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3731
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Haizhen Mou and Stanley L. Winer
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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home care of the elderly, price-subsidy, fiscal incidence index, non-cooperative family, cooperative family, income pooling, altruism, benefit shifting, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Medicaid, simulation

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Franchise Extension and Fiscal Structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913: A New Test of the Redistribution Hypothesis

CESifo Working Paper No. 8114
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Feb 2020
Toke Aidt, Stanley L. Winer and Peng Zhang
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics, Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and Simon Fraser University (SFU)
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franchise extension, redistribution, democratization, causality, structural breaks, local government, central government, historical narrative

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Trending Economic Factors and the Structure of Congress in the Growth Of Government, 1930-2002

Public Choice, Vol. 113, pp. 389-402
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2008
Stanley L. Winer, Michael Tofias, Bernard Grofman and John Aldrich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine and Duke University - Department of Political Science
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Public expenditure, Congress, Ideology, Majority party strength, Party control

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A Dynamic Model of Political Party Equilibrium: The Evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015

CESifo Working Paper No. 8387
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Jul 2020
J Stephen Ferris, Stanley L. Winer and Derek Olmstead
Carleton University, Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and University of Calgary
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The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867-2011

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5752
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Mar 2016
J. Stephen Ferris, Stanley L. Winer and Bernard Grofman
Carleton University - Department of Economics, Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and University of California, Irvine
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electoral competition, economic competition, contestability, volatility adjusted vote margin, safe seats, marginal seats, Duverger, Demsetz

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Explaining Variation in the Degree of Electoral Competition in a Mature Democracy: U.S. Senate Elections, 1922-2004

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009
Stanley L. Winer, Lawrence W. Kenny and Bernard Grofman
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and University of California, Irvine
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degree of electoral competition, U.S. Senate elections, heterogeneity of electorates, primaries

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Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States

CESifo Working Paper No. 7216
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Oct 2018
Bharatee Bhusana Dash, J Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Carleton University and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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electoral competition, effective number of parties and Tpartyness, volatility adjusted vote margins, asymmetry adjusted safe seats, Indian states, caste and class

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Political Competitiveness and Fiscal Structure: A Time Series Analysis. Canada, 1870 - 2015

CESifo Working Paper No. 7220
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Oct 2018
J Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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political competition, electoral competition, fiscal stability, budget composition, expenditure and tax size, debt and deficits, countercyclical policy, ARDL modeling

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Explaining Variation in the Competitiveness of U.S. Senate Elections, 1922-2004

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2013
Stanley L. Winer, Lawrence W. Kenny and Bernard Grofman
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and University of California, Irvine
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electoral competition, political competiveness, U.S. Senate electons, ideological heterogeneity, national party constaints, primary elections, spline regression, asymmetric breakpoint

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Political Competitiveness, Regression Discontinuity and the Incumbency Effect

CESifo Working Paper No. 10356
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Apr 2023
Jerome Archambault and Stanley L. Winer
Federal Government - Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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incumbency effect, regression discontinuity, political competitiveness, vote volatility, heterogeneity, interaction, organizational quality, reproduction

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Endogenous Tax Policy in a Computable Economic and Political Equilibrium: With Application to the United States, 1973-1983.

Chapter 7 in W. Hettich and S.L. Winer, Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. Cambridge University Press. 1999. 153-194
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Thomas Rutherford and Stanley L. Winer
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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Computable political equilibrium, United States, political influence weights, spatial voting, interest groups, tax policy, public goods, capital flows, GEMTAP, Pareto set

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Political Influence, Economic Interests and Endogenous Tax Structure in a Computable Equilibrium Framework: With Application to the United States, 1973 and 1983

Public Choice, Vol. 109, 2001
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 05 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 16 May 2019
Louis Hotte and Stanley L. Winer
University of Ottawa and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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Political competition, probabilistic voting, political influence, tax policy, public goods, GEMTAP, computable equilibrium

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Reassignment and the Power to Tax in a Federal State: Canada, 1867-2024

CESifo Working Paper No. 11678
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Feb 2025
Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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federal constitution, reassignment, demand and supply of governing instruments, power to tax, political competition, fiscal history, Canadian fiscal federalism

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Measuring Electoral Competitiveness in Liberal Democracies: Part 1 -Competitiveness as Unpredictability, and Part 2 -Contestability

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Dec 2024
Stanley L. Winer
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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closeness, vote margin, volatility, probability of loss, contestability, number of parties, contestation, collusion

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Social Welfare and Collective Goods Coercion in Public Economics

Posted: 28 Mar 2007
Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Ulster - School of Economics and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics

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Coercion, optimal linear income taxation, optimal commodity taxation, marginal cost of public funds, public goods, collective choice

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What is Missed If We Leave Out Collective Choice in the Analysis of Taxation

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What is Missed If We Leave Out Collective Choice in the Analysis of Taxation

Posted: 28 Jul 1998
Stanley L. Winer and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics

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What is Missed If We Leave Out Collective Choice in the Analysis of Taxation

Posted: 25 Aug 1998
Stanley L. Winer and Walter Hettich
Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics

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The Complexity of Tax Structure in Competitive Political Systems

International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1998
Posted: 11 May 1998
George Warskett, Stanley L. Winer and Walter Hettich
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Economics

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