This article contributes to the debate on the decline of the middle class by engaging in a cross-national comparison of the role public income redistribution play for the relative income position of the middle, and its change over time. The analysis distinguishes between the development of the...

Over the last few decades government income redistribution cushioned the growing disparity in the distribution of market incomes in many highly industrialized countries. There is a controversy in comparative political economy on what determines the varying scope of redistribution. The paper...

Nach einer neueren sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte nehmen die Bürger die Einkommensungleichheit eher ungenau wahr, was auch ihre Akzeptanz verteilungspolitischer Programme beeinflusst. Die Studie, über die der Artikel berichtet, prüft, ob sich das am Beispiel der Vermögensteuer bestätigen...