working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political … participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past … job loss and loss of income. Rather, the low levels of political involvement existed prior to these events and can in part …

experienced such a downturn, however. Analyses of the situation in the US indicate a similarly dramatic decline. Middle-income … earners are individuals in households earning a total income, before tax and social security contributions, of 67 to 200 … percent of the median. In the US, however, there has been a stronger increase in income polarization than in Germany. This is …

working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political … participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past … job loss and loss of income. Rather, the low levels of political involvement existed prior to these events and can in part …