Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … redistribution. Political absenteeism of the poor cannot explain such outcomes. Rather, they can be explained by the electoral …

redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and … redistribution in a panel data set of 140 countries for the period from 1970 to 2012. It finds that both inequality and …

improves the workers' outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some … upper limit for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive …

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …