A public choice analysis of some recent UK government policies
Abstrakti
Administrative Studies, vol. 10(1991): 4, 294-299
This article uses public choice theory to
examines the ability of political entrepreneurs to
generate popularity by generating redistributions
of income in which gainers perceive their gains
more clearly than losers perceive their losses.
The popularity of privatisation and the
unpopularity of poll tax in the UK are explained in
this framework of differing perceptions of gainers
and losers.
