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This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is...
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European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to … dedicated to the politics of inequality on the one hand, to political inequalities on the other hand. …
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This paper provides evidence of the changing attitudes to inequality during transition to the market in Poland. Using … repeated cross-sections of the population, it identifies a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and … satisfaction. Whereas in the first stage of the transition process, an increase in income inequality was interpreted by the …
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This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and …) from 1992 to 2005, we identify a structural break in the relation between income inequality and subjective evaluation of … well-being. The downturn in the tolerance for inequality (1997) coincides with the increasing distrust of political elites. …
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intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …
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