Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
political science and political economy. The famous median-voter model predicts that higher inequality, reflected in a growing … gap between the income of the average and the median voter, should lead to increased demand for redistribution, as … policymakers cater to the median voter's preferences (Meltzer and Richard, 1981). Yet, using data from OECD countries, Kenworthy …