on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we extract … turn our attention to the supply side of government redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments' reactions …

This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues … that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income … redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they favor redistribution as a means to insure against income shocks. The paper …

redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …

high levels of redistribution. According to international rankings, however, among the fourteen most unequal countries in …