Surely everyone wants to know the source of happiness, and indeed, economists and social scientists are increasingly …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … such activities, thus exacerbating inequality among a large part of the population. We then survey the existing empirical …

governments. We show that greater inequality makes the use of the military in nondemocratic regimes more likely and also makes it … more difficult for democracies to prevent military coups. In addition, greater inequality also makes it more likely that …