Does less inequality in wealth distribution imply better property rights protection? In this paper we show that this … conflict to peace stage (with no rent-seeking and fast growth) requires the reduction of inequality. This generates an …

belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

economic, institutional, and cultural environment. If investment opportunities are scarce, inequality is high, property rights …

belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

This paper explores the extent to which episodes of democratization can be explained by variation in income inequality … Robinson (2001), our empirical examination considers the possibility that the effect of income inequality on democratization …, we demonstrate that variation in income inequality can explain democratization following recessions, but that there is no …

citizens benefit from not-too-low inequality. Our model also implies that disastrous economic policies, characteristic for many … on the level of inequality, autocrats can deter foreign threats by choking the economy. This policy may prevent …

redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of inequality consolidate …