new measure developed in this paper. -- Redistribution ; inequality ; income mobility ; political economy ; power … inequality generated in the market? In order to answer these questions, we need to be equipped with adequate measures of … redistribution. Current measures employed in the sociology and politics of redistribution are seriously flawed. This paper elaborates …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …

redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … the empirical debate on the validity of the median-voter approach for explaining the relation between income inequality … and redistribution levels. …