Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

redistribution. We theoretically identify two classes of conditions when an empirically plausible amount of fairness preferences … redistribution experiment, and find that it predicts voting outcomes far better than the standard model of voting assuming …We use a model of self-centered inequality aversion suggested by Fehr and Schmidt (1999) to study voting on …

model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The decisive voter chooses redistribution contributing to abatement …, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain better environmental quality … of democracy imperfections on redistribution. …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European … redistribution over time. Though this result is predicted by standard political economy models, it has found little previous … redistribution. The empirical results hold after performing a variety of robustness checks regarding the construction of pseudo …