I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects the voting decision. Particularly, I … income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking voting …. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although … Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Unobserved characteristics correlated with income are … conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by a factor of five. To …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … (redistribution/social-insurance), and political participation. This paper represents an attempt to elaborate the nature of these …

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is … substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate …

economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …