Die öffentliche Debatte über "Neue Armut", "Unterschicht" und "Prekariat" hat den Blick darauf gerichtet, dass in der reichen Industrienation Deutschland zunehmend mehr Menschen den sozialen Abstieg fürchten oder bereits kein ökonomisch gesichertes Leben mehr führen.

One of the recurrent explanations of the Arab spring is that governments were disconnected from their populations and that public policies were simply not in line with people's sentiments and expectations. This paper provides a methodology to better understand how objective conditions of...