informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … in line with our theory. …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters … in line with our theory. …

in political economy would have us believe that democracies ought to reduce inequality through redistribution (e … that would benefit materially from redistribution also increases, making it more likely that a pro-redistribution political …-system institutionalization with lower levels of redistribution, both theoretically and empirically through cross-national comparisons. Finally …

We re-analyze the major explanations of redistribution including the Meltzer-Richard (MR) model, power resources theory … that partisan government is directly related to redistribution and has a strong effect on the generosity of social policy …. Lupu and Pontusson's wage dispersion skew measure has no effect on redistribution but does have a positive effect on …