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

recognized by all agents. I then use the framework to reassess the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The model … why the standard median-voter-based prediction, that more inequality produces more redistribution, has received little …, there is a non-monotonic relationship in which redistribution is initially increasing but eventually decreasing in …

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

, unlike a selfish voter model, poverty can lead to increased redistribution. Mean preserving spreads of income increase … equilibrium redistribution. Greater fairness leads to greater redistribution. The introduction of selfish voters in an economy … illustrates the potential importance of fairness in explaining redistribution. …

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 …

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

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

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