Höchtl, Wolfgang; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 7, pp. 1406-1421
majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are … pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure of income classes. We experimentally study voting on redistribution … to matter if the “rich” are in majority. With a “poor” majority, we find that redistribution outcomes look as if all …