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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 …
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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 …
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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the essential of democracy. It could be a road to genuine reforms3 preventing a disaster caused by the sheer rejection of …
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This survey documents the different arguments discussed in the academic literature on whether and how economic inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has often focused on new and emerging democracies, this...
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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates introduce a class bias into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from it....
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Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates introduce a "class bias" into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320633
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the effect of economic and political inequality on institutions. The current understanding suggests that unequal societies develop exploitative and inefficient institutions. Empirical research - which is scant, and has mainly...
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