The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … consistent with previous conclusions that democracy enhances redistribution measured by tax revenues and government expenditures … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … construct a model that predicts a higher probability of redistribution in democracies than in autocracies. Further, with higher … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these …

and weaker states even though such evidence is central to understanding how democracy might be consolidated in such … settings. This paper addresses this question in the case of Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world. Contrary to …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … construct a model that predicts a higher probability of redistribution in democracies than in autocracies. Further, with higher … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these …

We examine whether and under which circumstances World Bank projects and IMF programs affect the likelihood of major … model specification, those of the World Bank are shown to be robust to the choice of control variables and method of …. -- Political Crisis ; International Financial Institutions …