agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. -- redistribution …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … the net gain that low-skill agents obtain from income redistribution, which only the Left (but not the Right) can credibly … right-wing party. The comparative statics analyzes the effects of state capacity, a positive bias of voters for one party …

redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show …

fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …