Elections---often to a considerable degree---influence the fiscal policies pursued by governments installed on the basis of their results. Nonetheless, government behaviour is typically modelled exogenously, usually by means of a benevolent, permanently installed "social planner." However, since fiscal policies, devised by democratically elected governments, complement the decentralised pricing system, which---as shown by Samuelson (1954)---is incapable of optimally allocating both private and public goods, the social-planner approach is viewed as being an unsatisfactory tool for the purpose of describing the political aspects of economic decisions. / In the absence of a "first-best," Pareto-optimal tax system, fiscal policies are implemented as a result of inter-household "conflicts" over tax rates and public spending. In order to be able to overcome the theoretical difficulties encountered in previous contributions to the Economic Theory of Politics, this text will propose a model that explicitly depicts---"democratically aggregated"---political decisions made on the level of every individual. / In this thesis, it will be shown that (i) a country's overall budget can be derived endogenously without relying on the theoretical shortcut of interpersonal preference aggregation, (ii) electoral fluctuations be explained on the basis of the changes to the individuals' particular income and wealth situations, (iii) political behaviour be described in terms of votes and abstentions as well as party membership and ideology, and (iv) the crucial importance of a country's wealth distribution be discussed in the context of economic stability and the role of government.

Thesis (B.A.)--University of Adelaide, 1970.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Political Science, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1936. / Without thesis note. "Prepared under the auspices of the Columbia university Council for research in the social sciences." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2009. / Title from file title page. Richard N. Engstrom, committee chair; William Downs, Sean Richey, Stephen N. Nicholson, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 13, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-243).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-261). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thèse--Universit́e de Toulouse. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Panama. / At head of title: Publicaciones del Instituto nacional de Panama. "Bibliografia": p. [21].