This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. We retest the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis and account for a plethora of political, institutional, and cultural forces that influence the scope of redistribution. Extended and harmonized data on effective redistribution...

The article aims to verify whether, in the 1980s, there was a significant decrease in the involvement of the regional communist party structures in charge of economic affairs in Poland. The analysis is made on the case of the Warsaw Committee (KW) of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP)....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theories and Evidence of Financial Vulnerability -- Chapter 3: Building a Financial Vulnerability Model -- Chapter 4: Socio-Cultural and Economic Institutions at the Local Level -- Chapter 5: The Household as Financial Manager -- Chapter 6: Markets and...