The celebrated relation between inequality and redistribution is based on selfish voters who care solely about own … redistribution. We reexamine the relation between inequality and redistribution, within a simple general equilibrium model, when … can lead to increased redistribution (which implies a countercyclical social spending to GDP ratio). Third, we show that …

This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the …

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens. …

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …

We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …

We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …

We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in …