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Expectations of Social Mobility, Meritocracy and the Demand for Redistribution in Spain
Jaime-Castillo, Antonio M. - 2008
Meltzer and Richard (1981) state that democracy will boost redistribution of income from the rich to the poor. Given that the median voter is poorer than the average-income voter, a majority of voters will vote for redistribution. However, the positive relationship between democracy and...
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Redistribution, inequality and political participation : evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis
Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016
political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial … crisis resulted in greater individual participation in the last presidential elections and in higher individual propensity to … vote, particularly for the incumbent party. The programme was particularly effective in increasing political participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568213
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On the political and social consequences of economic inequality : civic engagement in Colombia
Justino, Patricia; Arjona, Ana; Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo - 2019
results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with increases in individual participation in political organizations …
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Robust Cross-Country Analysis of Inequality of Opportunity
Francesco, Andreoli - 2019
International rankings of countries based on inequality of opportunity indices may not be robust vis-à-vis the specific metric adopted to measure opportunities. Indices often aggregate relevant information and neglect to control for normatively irrelevant distributional factors. This paper...
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Electoral Inequity
Boccard, Nicolas - 2020
Ideally, a representative democracy awards a genuine vote to each adult. We study whether this applies in competitive democracies with an election model combining district appor- tionment and proportional representation (PR). Four classic seat allocation rules, including d'Hondt (1882), are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838852
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Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock : How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization
Voorheis, John - 2015
Income inequality and political polarization have both increased dramatically in the United States over the last several decades. A small but growing literature has suggested that these two phenomena may be related and mutually reinforcing: income inequality leads to political polarization, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017142
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Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization
Cheng, Hui-Pei - 2020
This paper examines the effect of political favoritism on economic inequality in the short run and political polarization in the long run. We exploit the sudden death of an authoritarian leader - President Chiang Ching-Kuo of Taiwan - in 1988 to generate plausibly exogenous variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848617
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258037
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Misperceiving inequality
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281602
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Migration and inequalities around the Mediterranean Sea
Nilsson, Björn; Ramadan, Racha - 2020
This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two (primarily) origin countries (Jordan and Iraq). Using LIS-ERF...
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