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 …

cross-national lobbying on this market. Here, we examine how an international lobby group can affect national and … what extent are governments' rent-seeking incentives affected through international lobbying? (2) how do domestic and …

For the years 2009-2018, we find that fossil fuel firms are more likely to lobby and that lobbying expenditures are …