Online Appendix for Crossing Party Lines: The Effects of Information on Redistributive Politics
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Constant shadow prices indicate that gains in expected votes with respect to marginal shifts in transfers should be equal across jurisdictions. The ratio of the scalars (λ/μ) holds constant, while exhausting the budget, only if each party promises the same amount to any given jurisdiction (taj = tbj = Yj ∀ j). Voter consumption is thus identical under either party and implies tj = 0. By the translate assumption, rewrite each jurisdictional density as a function of the common density, fj (0) = f (0 + αj), for the general first order condition:
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