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Democracy, Economic Development, and Income Inequality
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Most cross-national tests of inverse association between democracy and inequality have operationalized the concept of democracy by measuring its level at a single point in time. More compelling theoretical arguments can be made for causal relationships that operate over time between (1) a country's years of democratic experience and income inequality; and (2) income inequality and the stability of democracy. Continuous and qualitative measures of years of democratic experience are estimated to have a significant negative impact on income inequality independent of economic development and other control variables for a sample of 55 countries. A very strong inverse correlation is also observed between income inequality and regime stability for a sample of 33 democracies. This association holds independent of economic development, which is found to have no direct effect on democratic stability after controlling for income inequality.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Muller, E. N.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1988-02
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 50
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2316182293
- Cited by
- 516
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 39.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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