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countries for which we match aggregated indicators of populist values and social polarization computed from ESS and SILC survey … micro-data, respectively. We find that social polarization, along with other factors, can explain populist attitudes. We … also observe that both populist attitudes and polarization vary across countries much more than over time, with the …
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countries for which we match aggregated indicators of populist values and social polarization computed from ESS and SILC survey … micro-data, respectively. We find that social polarization, along with other factors, can explain populist attitudes. We … also observe that both populist attitudes and polarization vary across countries much more than over time, with the …
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Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by … populism as well. In this chapter, we ask whether elements of public deliberation may be a means to reasonably responding to …
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Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
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Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
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We build and implement a normative procedure to allocate international aid based on equality of opportunity concerning the risk of poverty. This is an alternative to Collier and Dollar's proposal (2001) which stresses the impact of aid on worldwide poverty reduction. The big problem with their...
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