“…For example, Boix (2003) analyze the complex links between democratic transitions and equality outcomes, finding that they are in general positively related. However, the relationship may also depend on what exact distributional outcome one studies (see a discussion in Scheve and Stasavage 2017), and historical evidence shows several examples on labor parties gaining representation in parliament and managing to shift policies towards redistribution often many years before the universal suffrage was introduced (Pittaluga et al 2015).…”