Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...

Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian...

Dieser Beitrag entwickelt die These, dass die moderne Gesellschaft mit zwei grundlegenden Problemen konfrontiert ist: mit einer systemischen Kolonialisierung der Le-benswelt sowie - spiegelbildlich - mit einer lebensweltlichen Kolonialisierung des Systems. Zudem wird skizziert, wie sich beide...