This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state …. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the … political majority has to take into account that emigration reduces tax revenues and thereby affects the feasible set of …

In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we nd that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters than … with our theory. …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … recognized by all agents. I then use the framework to reassess the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The model … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …

I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects <p> the voting decision. Particularly … permanent income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking … voting. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although … Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Unobserved characteristics correlated with income are … conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by a factor of five. To …

I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects the voting decision. Particularly, I … income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking voting …. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this … characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Although a positive association … between income and conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by …

model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …, which is also in line with our theory. …