and redistribution. The model shows that the interaction between contributions and voting leads to an endogenous wealth …I propose a framework in which individual political participation is endogenous and can take two distinct forms, voting … median-voter-based prediction, that more inequality produces more redistribution, has received little empirical support …

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …

. The standard theory assumes that more unequal income distribution will create a majority for more redistribution (Meltzer …

. The standard theory assumes that more unequal income distribution will create a majority for more redistribution (Meltzer …

do find that the middle income groups gain more/or lose less through redistribution in countries where initial (factor … beneficiaries of redistribution nor that the existing tax and transfer system are optimal from their perspective (in the sense that …

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …

politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …