This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

can only be reconciled by compromise or by voting. The greatest number must be of citizens alive today, but governments …

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

Standard models of voting on redistribution generate a clear-cut prediction: redistribution increases in income …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

This paper analyzes the impact of a redrawing of political boundaries on voting patterns. It investigates whether … traditional voting patterns, we argue that there were differences in political preferences between Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh …-in-differences estimation strategy, we show that these predictions are validated empirically - there is a significant divergence in voting …