of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country … main finding is that a higher level of income inequality impacts negatively on citizens' satisfaction with democracy and …

find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting …

One cannot doubt the ubiquitous lack of hope and confidence in the so-called democratic institutions by the large … majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … Europe, of the pre-revolution era2. What is at stake is to understand the paramount failure of political institutions to meet …

-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 … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …, but this might be the result of a decrease in trust in the institutions who are in charge of redistributive policies. …

the national government to address inequality through redistribution by providing them with information about inequality … participants in 11 countries that make up over 30% of the global population and produce more than 40% of world GDP. Survey … preferences for redistribution are only elastic to information in some countries and in the United States both types of …