impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show …Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the … that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty as taxed wealthy people buy votes from poor people. We then show …

not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Guatemala the extreme poverty headcount ratio is …

-2011) along geographic, religious, ethno-linguistic and economic lines. Poverty and inequality rose throughout the decade. We …

Although voter turnout in the 2013 general election to the German Bundestag differed considerably across income …

Are differences in preferences for redistribution between right and left wing voters amplified because of … to convergence in preferences for redistribution and charitable giving between right and left wing voters. The effect …

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and … allow for majority voting on the length of electoral periods. Finally, we extend the model to encompass retirement and baby …

The problem of finding the factors influencing voting behavior is of crucial interest in political science and is … voting behavior at a previously unexplored level of disaggregation. The statistical relationships among the participation …

We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is … substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic … political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election … evolution of confirmation bias can lead to more pandering before the first election. Finally, we show that when confirmation …