We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the …

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 …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

capital), and the volume of migration (of both skill types), to be higher in the competitive regime than in the coordinated … positive if the (state variable) the capital stock is within a certain range, or zero, otherwise. Migration share of native … level, otherwise. In the case of private saving only regime, the migration share is intermediate level. Thus, migration …

influences the succeeding education policy. More surprisingly, the prospect of voting on education policy also affects the … the two-dimensional heterogeneity of the citizens shapes the voting equilibrium in our setting with sequential voting …

redistribution. Lack of portability regarding this type of cover may impede international mobility and create financial losses or …

I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of … income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible — as compared to the closed …

voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …