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

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 …

, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and the inefficiency of the labor allocation. We compare two environments … lower nominal value in open economies, the actual extent of redistribution in equilibrium is larger in the open than in the …

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971–2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …

-market aspirations - and forces the elite to expand redistribution. Along the lines of this trade-off, our theory provides a Lipsetian …The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two …