high levels of redistribution. According to international rankings, however, among the fourteen most unequal countries in … the world, nine have been democratic for at least the past fourteen years. A prerequisite for the adoption of …

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …