Does Liberté = Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Links between Democracy and Inequality with Some Evidence on the Transition Economies

The effect of the distribution of political rights on income inequality has been studied both theoretically and empirically. The authors review the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence. The literature suggests th...

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Main Authors:	Gradstein. Mark, Milanovic, Branko
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	TRANSITION ECONOMIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC VALUES INEQUITY POLITICAL RIGHTS INCOME INEQUALITIES POLITICAL FREEDOM VOTING POWER REDISTRIBUTION CIVIL LIBERTIES IDEOLOGY SOCIAL VALUES ADVANCED COUNTRIES AVERAGE INCOME CAPITAL MARKET CAPITAL MARKETS CITIZENS CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNISM DATA AVAILABILITY DATA BANKS DATA COLLECTION DATA SET DATA SETS DECISION MAKING DECREASING FUNCTION DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIC REGIMES DEMOCRATIZATION DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DISPOSABLE INCOME DISTRIBUTIONAL CONFLICTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMY LITERATURE EGALITARIAN DISTRIBUTION ELECTIONS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPIRICAL SUPPORT EQUAL DISTRIBUTION FACTOR INCOME FREE PRESS FREEDOM GDP GINI COEFFICIENT GINI INDEX HIGH CONCENTRATION HIGH CORRELATION HIGH INEQUALITY IMPERFECT CAPITAL MARKETS INCOME INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME SHARES INCOMES INCREASED INEQUALITY INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY DATA INEQUALITY EQUATION INEQUALITY MEASURES INTEREST GROUPS INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS INVERSE RELATIONSHIP LABOR INCOME LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEFT-WING LITERACY RATES LOBBYING LOW INCOME MASS MEDIA MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS MEASURING INCOME INEQUALITY MEDIAN VOTER NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NET INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY CHANNEL POLITICAL FACTORS POLITICAL INFLUENCE POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION POLITICAL LIBERTIES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL PROCESSES POLITICAL REFORMS POLITICAL SCIENTISTS POLITICAL STRUCTURE POLITICAL STRUCTURES POLITICAL VARIABLES POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE EFFECT POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRE-TAX INCOME PRIVATE PROPERTY PROGRAMS PURCHASING POWER REAL LEVEL REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICY REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE INCOME RIGHT TO VOTE SELECTION BIAS SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP SOCIAL EQUALITY SOCIAL TRANSFERS SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUFFRAGE TAX REVENUES TAX SYSTEM TOLERANCE TRADE UNIONS UNIONS VOTING VOTING RIGHTS WAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/08/1997763/liberte-egalite-survey-empirical-links-between-democracy-inequality-some-evidence-transition-economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19266