Replication data for: Political Participation, Income Distribution, and Public Transfers in Developed Democracies

Much positive theory purports to explain this development as a direct consequence of differing distributions of political (votes) and economic (money) resources. This literature concludes, inter alia, that tax-and-transfer-system (T &T) sizes increase in the skew of the income distribution.

This paper builds from that basis, suggesting theoretical additions and amendments deriving from further consideration of the democratic processes that transform resources into influence. It especially emphasizes that not everyone participates politically and that who participates is non-randomly selected. This implies that aggregate participation rates will mediate T&T responses to income inequality, and, conversely, that income inequal ity will mediate T&T responses to aggregate participation rates.