In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the … democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target … taxation of the rich. Survey evidence from the United States and Germany and experimental evidence on giving money to real …

This paper investigates the politicians' incentives to pursue income redistribution when governments are constrained to …-kind transfers reduces the disincentive effects of taxation in labor effort and enlarges the pool of resources for political … redistribution. As a result, politicians are able to implement larger redistributive transfers and improve the well-being of swing …

redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … (redistribution/social-insurance), and political participation. This paper represents an attempt to elaborate the nature of these …