; redistribution ; market liberalization ; trust …Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …

The linkage between income inequality and citizens’ support for democracy has widely been discussed in the literature … concept of democracy while overall income inequality has no statistically significant effect. This observation can be … rationalized by citizens regarding democracy as a means to achieve equality of opportunity rather than simply as a vehicle for …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …

of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country … main finding is that a higher level of income inequality impacts negatively on citizens' satisfaction with democracy and …

and political trust both lead to fiscal policy preferences that constrain effective redistribution. Electoral …