Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … redistribution. Political absenteeism of the poor cannot explain such outcomes. Rather, they can be explained by the electoral …

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … redistribution. Political absenteeism of the poor cannot explain such outcomes. Rather, they can be explained by the electoral …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … construct a model that predicts a higher probability of redistribution in democracies than in autocracies. Further, with higher … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …

The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism …, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a …

lose less) through redistribution in countries where initial (factor) income distribution is more unequal. The median voter … (or lose less) through redistribution in countries where initial (factor) income distribution is more unequal. This … Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality (RPO 683-01). Also …