This paper adopts a comparative framework and examines rates of poverty and income inequality for Luxembourg between the mid-1980s and 2000. A dataset for the Grande Reacute;gion, which combines data from four countries, is also constructed in order to perform cross- and inter-regional analyses....

This paper examines the relationship between regional or 'contextual' poverty, income inequality and unemployment and individual political participation in the mid-1990s for the following Western European countries: Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. This...