theorists have often stressed that democracy is in troubles when its population is not broadly uniform in income and wealth … connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large … and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …