The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of...

Foreword / Raymond Plant -- From citizen solidarity to self-serving inequality : social solidarity, market economy and welfare statecraft / Jack Hayward -- Public intervention : the roles of state and society -- The rationale for the retreat from the welfare state / Noel O'Sullivan -- Expanding...

This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and Central Asia. The paper uses the Life in Transition Survey to analyze cross-country differences in redistributive preferences and the determinants of individual-level differences in...