Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an … political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …

explores which aspects of redistribution are more popular and among which groups. The roles of selfinterest, perceptions of … inequality, values, and the relationship between citizens and the public sphere in shaping attitudes to redistribution are …

This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are …

“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 …

and political trust both lead to fiscal policy preferences that constrain effective redistribution. Electoral …