Comparing government redistribution across countries: The problem of second-order effects

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1390-1404

  Jesuit, David K ^a   Mahler, Vincent A ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958580641     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00737.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Beramendi, Pablo. 2001. The Politics of Income Inequality in the OECD: The Role of Second Order Effects. Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper 284. Luxembourg City: LIS.
2. Bergh, Andreas. 2005a. "On Inter- and Intra-Individual Redistribution in the Welfare State. Social Science Quarterly 86:984-95.
3. Bergh, Andreas. 2005b. "On the Counterfactual Problem of Welfare State Research: How Can We Measure Redistribution? European Sociological Review 21:345-57.
4. Bradley, David, Evelyne Huber, Stephanie Moller, François Nielsen, and John D. Stephens 2003. "Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial Democracies. World Politics 55:193-228.
5. Brady, David, and Benjamin Sosnaud 2010. "The Politics of Income Inequality." Pp. 521-41 in Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins, eds., Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective. New York: Springer.
6. Brooks, Clem, and Jeff Manza 2007. Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
7. Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management. 2010. Cross-National Equivalent File. Available
8. Duval, Romain. 2004. "Retirement Behaviour in OECD Countries: Impact of Old-Age Pension Schemes and Other Social Transfers. OECD Economic Studies 37:7-50.
9. Ferrarini, Tommy, and Kenneth Nelson 2003. "Taxation of Social Insurance and Redistribution: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Welfare States. Journal of European Social Policy 13:21-33.
10. Finseraas, Henning. 2007. "Voter Turnout, Income Inequality, and Redistribution." Paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research. Pisa, Italy.
11. Hicks, Alexander, and Duane Swank 1984. "Government Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies. Policy Studies Journal 13:265-86.
12. Kenworthy, Lane, and Jonas Pontusson 2005. "Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries. Perspectives on Politics 3:449-71.
13. Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. Multiple Countries, December 2009-April 2010. Available
14. Lynch, Julia. 2001. "The Age Orientation of Social Policy Regimes in OECD Countries. Journal of Social Policy 30:411-36.
15. Lynch, Julia. 2006. Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers and Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Mahler, Vincent A. 1989. "Income Distribution Within Nations: Problems of Cross-National Comparison. Comparative Political Studies 22:3-32.
17. Milanovic, Branko. 2000. "The Median-Voter Hypothesis, Income Inequality, and Income Redistribution: An Empirical Test with the Required Data. European Journal of Political Economy 16:367-410.
18. Paglin, Morton. 1975. "The Measurement and Trend of Inequality: A Basic Revision. American Economic Review 65:97-125.
19. Pederson, Axel West. 1994. The Welfare State and Inequality: Still No Answer to the Big Questions. Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper 109. Luxembourg City: LIS.
20. Plotnick, Robert. 1984. "The Redistributive Impact of Cash Transfers. Public Finance Quarterly 12:27-50.
21. Pontusson, Jonas. 2005. Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
22. Scruggs, Lyle. 2005. "The Redistributive Consequences of Welfare State Entitlements" Paper presented at the Maxwell European Union Center, Syrocuse University for a conference on Democracy, Inequality and Representation: Europe in Comparative Perspective, Syracuse, NY.
23. Solt, Frederick. 2008. "Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement. American Journal of Political Science 52:48-60.
24. U.S. Social Security Administration. 2010. Social Security Programs Throughout the World. Available
25. Uusitalo, Hannu. 1985. "Redistribution and Equality in the Welfare State: An Effort to Interpret the Major Findings of Research on the Redistributive Effects of the Welfare State. European Sociological Review 1:163-76.