poor voters, and cause parties to choose political platforms that are better aligned with the preferences of rich voters …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

phenomenon across the globe. Upward-biased perceptions are associated with lower preferences for redistribution and have direct … redistribution preferences, is independent of socio-demographic characteristics, robust to measurement errors in social surveys, and … occurs similary when we change the underlying micro data or examine party preferences. …

phenomenon across the globe. Upward-biased perceptions are associated with lower preferences for redistribution and have direct … redistribution preferences, is independent of socio-demographic characteristics, robust to measurement errors in social surveys, and … occurs similarly when we change the underlying micro data or examine party preferences …

information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force. …

information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force …

We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …

. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …

We examine the effect of prospects of upward mobility (POUM) on the support for redistribution in an intragenerational … through which mobility expectations affect redistributive preferences. We address this by including an interaction between … POUM-effect that is conditional on political preferences. Only for right-wing individuals expected upward income mobility …