Taxation and the inequality decline in Latin America -- Introduction: taxation and the inequality decline in Latin America -- The taxation and inequality link -- The empirics of taxation and inequality -- Public finance, taxation and inequality -- Macroeconomics, taxation and inequality --...

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...