Download This PaperBuying Votes with Discriminative Support for Renewable Energy Technologies
25 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2015
Date Written: March 8, 2015
Abstract
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.
Keywords: Renewable energy, photovoltaics, wind, political economy
JEL Classification: P48, Q42, Q48, Q54
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Ovaere, Lotte and Proost, Stef V., Buying Votes with Discriminative Support for Renewable Energy Technologies (March 8, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2587663 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2587663
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