the probabilistic voting model in political economy. Effects persist after the cash transfer program ends. We estimate …

political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …

In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (information controller) can influence voters’ choices by …-unanimous voting rule, she exploits voters’ heterogeneity by designing a signal with realizations targeting di↵erent winning …-coalitions. Consequently, under simple-majority voting rule, a majority of voters might be strictly worse o↵ due to the controller’s influence …

Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However …, does it arise when income redistribution is feasible as well? In this paper I analyse a two-dimensional model of political … decision making. Society has to choose both the tax rate and the allocation of the revenues between income redistribution and …

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income redistribution and some targeted transfers … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …