curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …During the nineteenth century, most Western societies extended voting rights, a decision that led to unprecedented … widespread social unrest and revolution. Political transition, rather than redistribution under existing political institutions …

relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of inequality consolidate … redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … democracy and redistribute more than both very equal and very unequal countries. We also show that asset redistribution, such as …

regime changes are often followed by redistribution to the poor at the expense of the former elite. We argue that the reason …

inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …

and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …’ rent-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters …, however, but inequality in the relative distribution of earning and political power. For each of the three channels of …

social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality …-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …

develop a generalized dual approach to tracking household inequality aspects of social welfare in general equilibrium. We … complement the set of standard inequality results in trade theory focused on functional rather than household inequality. We also … find that the relative distributional impact of tariffs on welfare is conditional on the initial level of inequality. …