In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the …

democratization in the sense of expansion of the elite leads to an increased investment in state capacity and to a reduction in … changes may lead either to democratization or to the entrenchment of an immovable elite … a policy variable, and we study the evolution of state capacity when policy is chosen by an elite. We show that …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two …

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and …

We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …

We study democratization, coups and trade policy determination in an environment marked by intra-elite conflict over … elite may respond to popular revolts by reallocating political power within the elite rather than offering democratization …-Robinson model of democratization. Unlike the approaches taken in the previous literature, we study the simultaneous determination of …