In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail …: democracy does not lead to a uniform decline in post-tax inequality, but can result in changes in fiscal redistribution and …

ethnic heterogeneity reduces redistribution. Finally, there is much more inequality and less …less redistribution, and we have little idea whether this relationship is caused by redistribution …redistribution in the U.S. than in most other developed nations …

An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when … force making democracy less stable in societies with high social mobility: when the median voter expects to move up … conflicting preferences of her "future selves," and that the evolution of institutions is determined through the implicit …

wealth tends to undermine democracy. Given high oil prices, some observers see the country as virtually condemned to … around the world suggests that for countries like Russia with an established oil industry, even large increases in the scale …

. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating … democracy and capitalism--is to move to a governance structure based on impersonal rules that apply in the same way to everyone …

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …