fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using …

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 …

inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …

a two-party system in which the left-wing party has a larger preference for redistribution than the right-wing party … government has incentives to fi- nance redistribution via external debt to avoid distortionary income taxation. On the other hand …