The relationship between democracy and economic inequality is never conclusive. This study contributes to clarifying it … suggests one of the mechanisms between democratic experience and inequality. Democracy, or longstanding autocracy, in the long …. Finally, the redistributive nature of democracy illustrated by democratic theorists is nonetheless found to be valid, but the …

of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country … main finding is that a higher level of income inequality impacts negatively on citizens' satisfaction with democracy and …

One cannot doubt the ubiquitous lack of hope and confidence in the so-called democratic institutions by the large … majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … Europe, of the pre-revolution era2. What is at stake is to understand the paramount failure of political institutions to meet …

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using only one measure, namely the liberal democracy index. Simple correlations with … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

behavior but rather on values that are traditionally viewed as populist values, such as distrust of institutions and neighbors …

The linkage between income inequality and citizens’ support for democracy has widely been discussed in the literature … concept of democracy while overall income inequality has no statistically significant effect. This observation can be … rationalized by citizens regarding democracy as a means to achieve equality of opportunity rather than simply as a vehicle for …