and upward mobility relative to own parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro …-public sector attitudes and voting. Both greater individual social status and greater mobility with respect to parents are … social status is associated with less favourable attitudes to redistribution and the public sector, greater upward mobility …

century. We propose an explanation for these facts which is based on a dynamic political economy model where redistribution is …

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

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of a redrawing of political boundaries on voting patterns. It investigates whether … traditional voting patterns, we argue that there were differences in political preferences between Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh …-in-differences estimation strategy, we show that these predictions are validated empirically - there is a significant divergence in voting …