This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to …

North countries. This paper instead shifts the attention to the Global South, where research on the inequality-redistribution …, focusing on ethnic inequality and the conditioning role of democracy. My findings do not support the idea that income … inequality determines redistribution. In contrast they suggest that ethnic inequality matters more than income inequality for …

inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby … benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …

majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in … the essential of democracy. It could be a road to genuine reforms3 preventing a disaster caused by the sheer rejection of …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail …: democracy does not lead to a uniform decline in post-tax inequality, but can result in changes in fiscal redistribution and …

This paper examines how income inequality can affect the polarization of heterogeneous party platforms on climate … preferred redistribution. A static gametheoretic model of two-dimensional political competition on a carbon tax (with … distributional implications) and an income tax is combined with a model of a carbonintensive economy. For a higher inequality of pre …