We study the effect of political polarization on government spending and redistribution using the dispersion of self …-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Politically polarized countries have lower levels of redistribution and …

We study the effect of political polarization on government spending and redistribution using the dispersion of self …-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Politically polarized countries have lower levels of redistribution and …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

redistribution, and its incorporation into normative analysis. We explore modifications to traditional rules for optimal fiscal …

path of that redistribution. There was no statistically significant association between party control of either branch of … government and the path of redistribution of national income on a pre-tax basis, suggesting that economic factors drove pre …-tax redistribution. However, there were strong associations between party control and the path of redistribution of post-tax income. When …

influence preferences for redistribution and public policies. We consider both cross-country and individual level evidence on … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while … redistribution among left-leaning citizens, while this difference is significant among moderates in the expected direction …

influence preferences for redistribution and public policies. We consider both cross-country and individual level evidence on … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while … redistribution among left-leaning citizens, while this difference is significant among moderates in the expected direction …

redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …