The link between income inequality and governmental redistribution is still subject to intense research and debate … this paper is to review the existing literature on inequality and redistribution, to explicate the theoretical causal … of previous empirical studies. Using panel data on 23 OECD countries over the time period of 1971-2005, we not only look …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … construct a model that predicts a higher probability of redistribution in democracies than in autocracies. Further, with higher … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …

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 …

Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … (redistribution/social-insurance), and political participation. This paper represents an attempt to elaborate the nature of these …

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although … handled by using fixed effects panel data discrete choice models. Although a positive association between income and …

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although … handled by using fixed effects panel data discrete choice models. Although a positive association between income and …

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this …