can only be reconciled by compromise or by voting. The greatest number must be of citizens alive today, but governments …

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …

redistribution were consolidated in countries with political democracy and established interest representation. They were lowest in …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs … under the welfare state. We investigate bidimensional voting on the tax rates that determine the allocation of government …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs … under the welfare state. We investigate bidimensional voting on the tax rates that determine the allocation of government …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. -- redistribution …

This paper contributes to the literature on majority voting over fiscal policies. We depart from the standard model in …

In the classic Meltzer and Richard (1981) model, the canonical model of income redistribution in democracies, voters … mean income, the larger is the scale of income redistribution favored by the median voter. But does the median voter … actually end up with more income post redistribution? We establish, somewhat ironically, that the median voter (and many poorer …

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of …