The Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, the poor have no incentive for regime transformation and authoritarian …

compared with the alternative income. It is regressive in a dictatorship and Progressive in a democracy considering the level …

became clear that a change of regime through the ballot box was impossible, in view of the consolidation of this dictatorship …

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …

redistributive policies from a stock-flow perspective reveals an artificial blind spot of the prevailing approach to redistribution … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision … redistribution. This omission impoverishes the understanding of redistribution and hampers the design of redistributive policies in …

A benchmark result in the political economy of taxation is that the degree of redistribution is positively linked to … enforcement, we show that higher inequality may well decrease the extent of redistribution, depending on two opposing effects: the …