This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock

Do tariff revenues affect democratization? We argue that tariff revenues have two theoretically relevant effects: i) A rapacity effect: they generate incentives to control government, ii) A redistributive effect: they impact the returns to the factors of production changing the distribution of...

Do tariff revenues affect democratization? We argue that tariff revenues have two effects: i) A rapacity effect because the fiscal windfalls generate incentives to control government, and ii) A redistributive effect because tariffs impact the returns to the factors of production, changing the...