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

This paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an …, redistribution is from rich to poor. Increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under different assumptions about the … economic environment, redistribution may not be simply rich to poor, and inequality need not increase redistribution. Several …

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

The main question addressed in this paper is how the possibility of investing in tax avoidance affects voting and … redistributive outcomes in an economy where the tax rate is determined by a majority vote and taxes go to lump-sum redistribution …

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. …

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 …

We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution … across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing … explanations of redistribution from resources and instruments, as well as supply side factors. We then provide empirical evidence …

populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. I discover that recent unemployment during the Great …

parties are not motivated by reciprocity. We show that reciprocity may have dramatic consequences for models of voting …