Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …

decision by mitigating a voting externality. Hence, institutions may adopt public voting when the fear of blame is too little …, and secret voting when the fear is too much. We also show that public voting is particularly desirable in committees with … overly biased members or overly biased voting rules against the alternative …

Standard models of voting on redistribution generate a clear-cut prediction: redistribution increases in income … accompanied by developments in redistribution into the opposite direction. This paper argues that it is important to distinguish … skewness. In a model with imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in different ways. While polarization …

Despite a strong theoretical prediction that income skewness and redistribution should be positively linked, empirical … skewness. Under imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in diff erent ways. While rising polarization … increases redistribution, upward mobility can have the opposite eff ect. Reasonable degrees of informational imperfection are …

-generational redistribution strategically to make the repayment of debt politically viable? Using a two-generations game-theoretic model, we …

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

between income redistribution and two forms of public spending - healthcare and capital investment - are determined through …