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What are the conditions under which democracies remain stable when there is inter-group conflict both over income redistribution and ethnic identity-based policies? I answer this question by constructing a game-theoretic model of two-dimensional electoral competition in which th…

A country's level of objective income inequality and a person's income are predictors of individual level redistributive preferences. These theoretical assertions arise from formal models that ignore the subjective dimensions of income inequality. A country's level of objective …

Social policy has been transformed in Mexico during the last two decades. Social insurance programmes on which welfare provision was based throughout the twentieth century have been retrenched and new social assistance programmes have been introduced and expanded. This thesis ai…

This dissertation presents a unified redistributive theory of public education spending. The project develops a formal model of the cross-cutting redistributive forces that determine political preferences over education and develops from these a series of hypotheses about the ke…

Following a period of relative political inactivity dating to the 1920s, the 1960s saw evangelical elites engage in politics in ways that some leaders had decried only a decade earlier. At the same time, lay evangelicals began a partisan realignment, shifting from majority Democ…