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 …

Standard majority-voting models predict that redistribution is positively linked to the mean-to-median income ratio but … important to consider the source of rising mean-to-median ratios. Income growth of the poor can lead to less redistribution as … more agents perceive themselves to be rich, which tends to reduce the support for redistribution. An empirical application …

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 …

We present the first economic experiment on bandwagon behavior in voting. Subjects are given an individual endowment … that the voting behavior differs across treatments in a way that is consistent with bandwagon voting. They also confirm the … importance of instrumental motives and – unlike the majority of previous experiments – find support for expressive voting motives …

) countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 2005–2010. It employs (individual) voting records of the … indicators and voting records. Recent evidence for the monetary policy committees of advanced economies (see Besley et al., 2008 …

A set of voters consults experts before voting over two alternatives. Experts observe private signals about the values … of the alternatives and can reveal their information or conceal it, but cannot lie. We examine how disclosure and voting … vary with preference biases, signal precision, and the voting rule. Unanimity rule can lead to greater information …