While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality, empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. Here we take yet another look at this issue arguing first, that prevailing ideology may be an important...

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...

The median voter hypothesis plays an important role in endogenous growth theories. It provides the political mechanism through which voters in more unequal countries redistribute a larger proportion of income and thus, it is argued, by blunting incentives reduce country's growth rate. However,...