Do the poor soak the rich under democracy? Although social conflict theory predicts that democracies should be more … investigate the relationship between regime type and redistribution. It does so by focusing attention on Latin America, a highly … unequal region of the world where we should not only expect redistribution after a democratic transition, but expect a lot of …

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …