redistribution experiment, and find that it predicts voting outcomes far better than the standard model of voting assuming …We use a model of self-centered inequality aversion suggested by Fehr and Schmidt (1999) to study voting on … redistribution. We theoretically identify two classes of conditions when an empirically plausible amount of fairness preferences …

impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show … rotating agenda setting, a taxpayer-protection rule and repeated voting. The latter rule makes vote buying prohibitively costly …

. We ask how exogenous shifts to the value of residents' human capital affect voting behavior in California neighborhoods …. As predicted by economic theory, we find that positive economic shocks decrease support for redistributive policies. More … notably, we find that conservative voting on a wide variety of ballot propositions - from crime to gambling to campaign …

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and … to shape the electorate through emigration of their opponents or reinforcement of class identities. The model sheds light …

inducing gratitude and reciprocity among beneficiaries, redistribution may also initiate clientelist exchange. We study the … long-term effects of a major redistribution policy: the 1950 Italian land reform. Using a panel spatial regression … discontinuity and data for half a century, we show that the large-scale redistribution led to the emergence of a long …

voters. We address this problem by exploiting an instrument based on new data measuring the amount of rainfall on the voting …

of voters are most likely targeted, we know much less about the consequences of vote buying for redistribution and public … for redistribution and public goods provision. Using data from a lab experiment conducted in Kenya, we find that vote … offered any money. In line with its effect on voting behavior, vote buying has negative effects on subjects’ evaluations of …

occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate and educational investments are analyzed both under full certainty …

lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation … or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals, the set of regions that wins or loses from a given policy is fixed … Parliament elections from 1990 onwards, and find that strategic voting is indeed U-shaped: winning and losing member states vote …

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …