Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … indicates a system of endogenous relations between economic performance (unemployment/income-distribution), social policy …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not …

result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their choices could result in a different total surplus and different … distributions of the surplus between the subject and an anonymous counterpart. In our sample, social preferences are unrelated 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 …