and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate … welfare state. More generally, the paper develops a theory of collective beliefs and motivated cognitions, including those …

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their …

voting, where agents vote over income redistribution. The key feature of the theory is that the future constituency of … redistributive policies depends positively on the current level of redistribution, since this affects both private investments and … both private incentives and future voting outcomes. The equilibrium features multiple steady-states, one with and one …

costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …

maximize the probability of gaining a majority in the Electoral College. A two-candidate, probabilistic-voting model reveals …