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Level of Socio-Political Stability, Income Distribution and Democracy in Africa
Badri, Houda; Souam, Saïd - 2022
[enteThe question of the links between inequality and democraty is still the subject of an intense academic debate. We revisit this question by taking explicitly into account the interactions between the level of of socio-political stability and inequality in order to measure their impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293684
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Income changes do not influence political participation : evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income changes have short-term effects on political involvement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520504
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Income changes do not influence political participation: evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income changes have short-term effects on political involvement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487005
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Income inequality & redistributional spending: An empirical investigation of competing theories
Mohl, Philipp; Pamp, Oliver - 2008
The link between income inequality and governmental redistribution is still subject to intense research and debate. Starting with the median-voter-hypothesis, a plethora of theoretical models have been developed during the last three decades to identify and explain possible causal relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335400
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Income inequality & redistributional spending : an empirical investigation of competing theories
Mohl, Philipp (contributor); Pamp, Oliver (contributor) - 2008
The link between income inequality and governmental redistribution is still subject to intense research and debate. Starting with the median-voter-hypothesis, a plethora of theoretical models have been developed during the last three decades to identify and explain possible causal relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749046
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Determinants of governmental redistribution
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2015
This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. We retest the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis and account for a plethora of political, institutional, and cultural forces that influence the scope of redistribution. Extended and harmonized data on effective redistribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292307
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
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Corruption, shadow economy and income inequality: Evidence from Asia
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Shrabani - 2012
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both Corruption Perception Index and ICRG index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291305
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The effect of democracy on corruption : income is key
Jetter, Michael; Montoya Agudelo, Alejandra; Ramírez, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 286-304
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The relationship between corruption and inequality in Colombia : empirical evidence using panel data for the period 2008-2017
Sáenz Castro, Jorge Enrique; García-González, Juan David - In: Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo 8 (2019) 2, pp. 28-43
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