more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter …

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labor 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 children … in large-scale expropriation and highly progressive redistribution. But is it compatible with everyone -- especially the …

relative utility comparisons, support for redistribution depends not only on absolute income but on one's status relative to a …

Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place …" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone …

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …