We study voting over education subsidies where poor individuals may be excluded and the rich may chose private … respect to the possibilities of political change seem general for problems of redistribution with excludability. …

I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects <p> the voting decision. Particularly … permanent income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking … voting. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although … Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Unobserved characteristics correlated with income are … conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by a factor of five. To …

I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects the voting decision. Particularly, I … income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking voting …. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …

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 … redistribution. We theoretically identify two classes of conditions when an empirically plausible amount of fairness preferences …

model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … recognized by all agents. I then use the framework to reassess the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The model … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this … characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Although a positive association … between income and conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by …

A benchmark result in the political economy of taxation is that the degree of redistribution is positively linked to … enforcement, we show that higher inequality may well decrease the extent of redistribution, depending on two opposing effects: the …

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two e¤ects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … redistribution levels. …