摘要：When based on perceived rather than o n objective income distributions, the Meltzer- Richards hypothesis and the POUM hypothesis work quite well empirically: there exists a positive link between perceived inequality or perceived upward mobility and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objec- tive measures of inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on perceptions than on factual data
