Democracy and Distribution
Democracy and Distribution
This chapter asks why, despite so many forecasts of downward democratic redistribution, history has demurred and even produced the opposite. It notes that because the dearth of redistribution to the poor in democracies results from numerous factors, analyzing it is unlikely to produce any single diagnosis. The approach taken here is to break the causes down to the “demand side,” asking why there is not more popular pressure for redistribution to the poor; and the “supply side,” asking why politicians and other elites do not put more redistributive policies on the table.
Keywords: democratic redistribution, democracy, demand, supply
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