theoretical background for redistribution policies such as land reform. The present model has the advantage to link growth to … criticisms, both at the empirical and theoretical level, concerning the voting on fiscal policy approach, a different one is …

example, it has been proposed that greater inequality is associated with lower growth, because of the greater redistribution … median-voter hypothesis concerning redistribution, because of previous absence of data on factor income distribution (that is …, incomes before taxes and transfers) across households, and thus on the gains by poorer households from redistribution. The …

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

The ‘Cuban safety-valve theory’ explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of … emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two … the Cuban state’s capacity to rein in uncontrolled emigration and to reassure its ‘gatekeeper role’. In addition, the …

Both in demographic as well as in sociological terms, much of West European fears about East European migration at … least conceal the real issues of the future migration processes. An analysis of world population growth trends shows that …