Greater democracy increases the voice of the people, creating political contestation and participation, and leading to … pro-labor institutional changes, higher wages and lower inequality. Political voice may therefore have a redistributive … effect that is independent of redistribution through public finances. Using data from Britain and Ireland during a time when …

on redistribution. Among the drivers of ideology, I find that racial animosity and distrust of the government contributes … redistribution. Estimating a DSGE model with microdata on the support for redistribution, I find that if voters disregarded their … ideological views on welfare policies, redistribution in the US would increase 117%. Because ideology is a more important …

investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …. These results suggest that redistributive preferences will diverge even more once public awareness increases that inequality …

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 …