Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … (redistribution/social-insurance), and political participation. This paper represents an attempt to elaborate the nature of these …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European … redistribution over time. Though this result is predicted by standard political economy models, it has found little previous … redistribution. The empirical results hold after performing a variety of robustness checks regarding the construction of pseudo …

This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. We retest the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis and … account for a plethora of political, institutional, and cultural forces that influence the scope of redistribution. Extended … and harmonized data on effective redistribution recently provided by the SWIID allows for the assessment of the origins of …