relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of unequality consolidate … democracy and redistribute more than both very equal and very unequal countries. We also show that asset redistribution, such as …

undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …

that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …