I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … recognized by all agents. I then use the framework to reassess the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The model … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its … theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be …

treatment) is a salient fairness principle in taxation that shapes voting on commodity taxes above and beyond concerns for …

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and … high or, respectively, low level of actual fairness. Using a simple model of individual labor market participation under … uncertainty, we predict that high levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels of individual welfare, and lower support for …