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The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
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redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …
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resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a … of redistribution and are more likely to be Democrats. …
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redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …
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Experimental literature on pro-social behavior has been largely focused on settings where the decision of donors is sufficient for an interaction to occur. However, in many real-life applications recipients first have to ask donors for help to initiate the transaction. We suggest that this first...
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Inequality and democracy are far more compatible empirically than predicted by social conflict theory. This paper … speaks to this puzzle, identifying the scope conditions under which democratization induces greater redistribution. Because …, elites may prefer democracy to autocratic rule if they can impose roadblocks to redistribution under democracy ex ante. Using …
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