Democracy, Redistribution, and Equality

By A. Przeworski. Brazilian Political Science Review, 2012

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The article argues that economic inequality inevitably generates politicalinequality, which in turn reproduces economic inequality. Basic concepts areintroduced first along with strong caveats concerning the quality of the crossnationaldata on income distributions; historical patterns of income inequalityare summarized next, and with these preliminaries, a distinction is made betweenredistribution of consumption at a particular time and equalization of incomeearning capacities over time. Following this economic considerations, the articlediscussion moves to political factors that may block redistributions.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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The economics of the democratic deficit: The effect of IMF programs on inequality (2016, unknown): “4 For a recent literature review see Acemoglu et al. (2015). 5 Empirical support for the link between democracy and lower inequality is reported in, e.g., Blaydes and Kayser (2011), Reuveny and Li (2003), Rodrik (1999). Statistically insignificant or non-robust results for this relationship are, e.”
Democracy Does Cause Growth (2019, background): “A more sizable literature looks at the effects of democracy on redistribution and inequality, and is reviewed and extended in Acemoglu et al. (2013).”
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth (2014, unknown): “These observations thus indicate that had we accessed top income data for the 44 We also find strong “conditional correlations” using regression analysis where we account for time trends and country effects, similar to what is done by Leigh (2007) and by Morelli, Smeeding, and Thomson (2014) in Chap”
Capital account liberalization and income inequality (2016, background): “Previous research has investigated various determinants of income inequality, such as labor markets (Gordon and Dew-Becker, 2008), technological change (Acemoglu, 2002) or institutions (Acemoglu et al., 2013).”
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States (2016, methodology): “First, by lagging all the variables on the right-hand side of equation (1) and second, by employing a restricted window for the control sample and lastly, by using the generalized method of moments (GMM) to deal with any possible endogeneity similar to the approach used by Acemoglu et al. (2013). Th”