Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2008, 44(6): 1063-1088 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2008.44.6.01

The Demand for Redistribution: A Test on Hungarian Data

István György Tóth
Tárki Social Research Institute, Budapest

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