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 …

Although economic circumstances have been argued to be a major determining factor of attitudes to redistribution, there … information, provides new and convincing evidence on the link between economic circumstances and demand for redistribution (in the … experience a job loss become considerably more supportive of redistribution. Yet, attitudes to redistribution return to their …

, they set up a theoretical model which was rooted in status theory. With this concept, one may explain a certain or optimal …

media can be biased. I develop a theory of media capture in which the rich can influence information published in a media …

media can be biased. I develop a theory of media capture in which the rich can influence information published in a media …

redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …

inequality for support for redistribution? We study these questions in a staggered experiment with a representative sample of the … redistribution. These results hide, however, important heterogeneity because the effects of beliefs about inequality for demand for … redistribution are preference-dependent: only affluent inequality averse individuals, but not the selfish and altruistic ones …

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

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …