sufficient to generate increasing income skewness and decreasing redistribution in the presence of upward mobility. -- Voting …Despite a strong theoretical prediction that income skewness and redistribution should be positively linked, empirical … skewness. Under imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in different ways. While rising polarization …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …

model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …

We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is … substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate …

The positive political returns to providing cash transfers have been well documented. However, redistribution through …

economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theory about support for redistribution in the presence of target …

We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …