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majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in … 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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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has … generally does not suggest any conclusive results concerning economic inequality and the emergence of democracies, the survey … inequality, and it outlines the conditions for this to occur. However, additional research especially on some of the more …
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high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income … information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using only one measure, namely the liberal democracy index. Simple correlations with …
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Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …
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between income inequality and political polarization appears to have taken place over the last twenty years. Indeed, we find … that both average inequality, measured by the post-tax Gini coefficient, as well as the bottom 10%income share are … income inequality and political polarization thus seems to be based on the deterioration of the relative economic position …
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Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …
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The starting point of our research is Piketty (2014) who follows Marx by asserting that rents are merely one of the forms of profits, therefore they do not require separate conceptual analysis and statistical separation. Speaking of the generation of rents (as a distinctly different mechanism...
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