David Rueda is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Social Democracy Inside Out (2007) and has received numerous research awards, including a British Academy Research Development Award (2008–10). He has held visiting positions at the Centre d'Études Européennes (Sciences Po, Paris), Yale University, Princeton University and Stanford University. Daniel Stegmueller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. He is also a Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His research has appeared in the Annual Review of Political Science, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Material Self-Interest: Redistribution and Insurance: 2. Income, income expectations, redistribution and insurance; 3. Income expectations as determinants of redistribution; Part II. Beyond Income: Externalities of Inequality: 4. Externalities and redistribution; 5. Analysis of externalities; Part III. Beyond Income: Population Heterogeneity: 6. Heterogeneity and redistribution; 7. Analysis of heterogeneity; Part IV. From Preferences to Voting: 8. The political consequences of redistribution demands; 9. Conclusion; Appendices.

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