majority in democracies may not support massive redistribution for the sake of their children’s educational attainment and … children respond negatively to the extent of redistribution, and parental altruism discourages poor voters from expropriating …

affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than … redistribution, mostly for "equality of opportunity" policies. We find a strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are … more pessimistic about mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions, and …

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they or their children … in large-scale expropriation and highly progressive redistribution. But is it compatible with everyone -- especially the …