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 …

The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism … in support of the presence of a political bias toward rich classes, particularly in non established democracies. Finally …

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

-globalist parties as well as for Brexit. A policy implication of our study is that governments may use up-front redistribution to gain …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

. The main research question raised in the paper is whether our perception of income differentiation is driven by experience …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …