We study an electoral competition model in which each voter is characterized by income level and non-economic characteristics, and where two vote share maximizing candidates, with fixed non-economic characteristics (differentiated candidates), strategically promise a level of redistribution. We...

We exploit the unpredictable nature of the labor market disruption posed by automation to investigate (i) how emphasizing different features of a potential labor market shock influences redistributive preferences and beliefs about inequality and fairness, and (ii) how such information interacts...