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

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the …

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism … in support of the presence of a political bias toward rich classes, particularly in non established democracies. Finally …