Do the rich ditch traditional politics? New preprint with my colleague Anton Brännlund out now! The interests of the wealthy are disproportionately represented in political decision making. Descriptively, the wealthy also participate more. But is this participation a causal effect of their wealth?

Do the rich ditch traditional politics? Evidence from Sweden

The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences of the wealthy, this raises the question of how ind...

Using detailed Swedish register data on wealth and participation in a discordant twin design, we find the opposite: if anything, wealth seems to have a negative effect on some forms of participation, and null effects on voting.