between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience … appears to have caused a high degree of economic inequality, and democratization in the form of franchise expansion has …

, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory …