The positive political returns to providing cash transfers have been well documented. However, redistribution through …

to prevent equivalence framing in the domain of voting on redistribution. Utilizing a simplified version of the Meltzer … collectively agreed level of redistribution are tremendously strong if the information tool is not available (low transparency … collective decision. Thus, the availability of the information tool has an asymmetric effect on the level of redistribution if …

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

This paper revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution in a panel of advanced OECD countries. Using …-monotonic relationship between pre-tax-and-transfer distribution of income and redistribution. Relative to mean income, a more affluent rich … and middle class are associated with less redistribution and a richer poor class is associated with more redistribution …

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

We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is … substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate …