The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Equality, Wealth, and Political Stability
Abstract
The relation between economic equality and political stability presents an issue of great importance in view of recent increases in economic inequality in the United States and many other countries This article presents theoretical reasons and empirical evidence derived from a large sample of the economic and political data of many different countries in support of the proposition that average incomes in a society, rather than the equality or inequality of the income distribution, increase political stability
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors
Katz, L. F., & Murphy, K. M. (1992) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.2307/2118323 · Cited by 4,793
Cited by
Sunstein, C. R. (1999) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.199668 · Cited by 384
Interpretation and Institutions
Sunstein, C. R., & Vermeule, A. (2003) · Michigan Law Review · doi:10.2307/1290510 · Cited by 257
Creating a Legal Framework for Economic Development
Posner, R. A. (1998) · The World Bank Research Observer · doi:10.1093/wbro/13.1.1 · Cited by 256
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Posner, R. A.
- Venue
- Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1997-10-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 344-365
- ISSN
- 1465-7341 (ISSN-L)
- 8756-6222
- OpenAlex
- W1975448154
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 56.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Equality, Wealth, and Political Stability. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jleo.a023387
- The paper
- Posner, R. A. (1997). Equality, Wealth, and Political Stability. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jleo.a023387
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
