Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …

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 …

; redistribution of resources and nurturing communitarian values. …

redistributive effects of taxation and public spending in the UK. Redistribution is not at the top of people’s minds when they …

context of public attitudes to inequality and different forms of redistribution. It compares the distributional effects of the …