“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …

stage where citizens choose their representatives. The first is the lack of information about the policy inclinations of … inequality and low redistribution can coexist. The theory's assumptions and outcomes are explored empirically using individual …