Staat und Staatlichkeit, also der Leviathan, präsentieren sich derzeit in sehr unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen, die in ebenso unterschiedlichen sozio-ökonomischen Strukturen eingebettet sind. Der Autor unterscheidet den zivilisierten Leviathan in der OECD-Welt als späte Phase des modernen...

This research considers the idea that a single metric expressing distance between social groups may be an adequate tool for investigating the relationship between ethnic/nationality minority group membership and social stratification. A Stereotyped Ordered Regression (SOR) model is proposed as a...

Is the extent of income inequality associated with average population health differences between wealthy countries? And, are between-country variations in indicators of the psychosocial environment associated with between-country health differences? This study carries out the most complete...

I interpret the ?distribution of income by sectors of the population? to refer to the personal distribution of income, with evidence about it derived from household surveys. Section 1 outlines the links between the personal and factor income distributions, and includes a discussion of research...