-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and …

importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the …

redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …

immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical … literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of … immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of …

our large modern social states and why concerns about inequality are so pervasive. A social solution arises when a …

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries … 1990, East Germans lived under a Communist regime with heavy state intervention and extensive redistribution. We find that …, after German reunification, East Germans are more in favor of redistribution and state intervention than West Germans, even …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the exporting' of inequality across borders; and how this, in …