The median voter theorem holds that as income distributions are skewed
to the right, the preferred amount of redistribution is a function of the relative
position of the median voter on the income scale. “The greater the distance between
the median voter’s income and society’s average income, the greater is society’s
preferred amount of redistribution. The preferred amount of redistribution should
be that which brings the median income in line with the average income.”
(Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D., 2014)