About Us
We are an international research team examining whether politicians shape income and wealth distribution beyond the influence of parties and governments. We ask whether policymakers’ worldviews and private economic interests bias their decisions in office, especially on taxation and fiscal policy, and what the distributional consequences are.
Together, our teams link political biographies, disclosed interests, policy processes, and tax outcomes to determine when and how individual politicians matter for distributional policy. By combining cross-national datasets with close, country-level analysis, we aim to clarify the pathways through which personal background, networks, incentives, and institutional constraints translate into fiscal choices and ultimately into the evolution of inequality.
Politicians and Wealth Reproduction
An international and interdisciplinary research project about politicians, policies and the reproduction of wealth
