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Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of...
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taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence activities," exploited by the capitalist elite in order to capture some …
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redistribution. Estimating a DSGE model with microdata on the support for redistribution, I find that if voters disregarded their … ideological views on welfare policies, redistribution in the US would increase 117%. Because ideology is a more important … on redistribution. Among the drivers of ideology, I find that racial animosity and distrust of the government contributes …
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The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
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