Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement

By F. Solt. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “With greater instability and weaker institutions, more disadvantaged people are less engaged in civic society—among advanced democracies with greater income inequality, the less all but the wealthiest citizens participate in politics (Solt, 2008).”
Economic grievances and political protest (2018, background): “…is concerned with individual socioeconomic status related to (shocks in) resources such as income or unemployrnent ( e.g., Rosenstone 1982; Verba & Nie 1972), whereas the latter deals with the aggregation and often unequal distribution of those resources (e.g., Blais & Dobrzynska 1998; Solt 2008).”
Preferences in Context (2012, methodology): “Conversely, the random effects approach, also used in Finseraas (2008) and Solt (2008), permits the estimation of the effects of national policies such as EPL.”
Democracy, Redistribution, and Equality (2012, background): “Yet Salt (2006) found that among the countries for which data on inequality are available from Luxembourg Income Studies, greater inequality depresses political interest, the frequency of political discussions, and electoral participation of all but the most affluent income quintile.”
The polarizing effect of economic inequality on class identification: Evidence from 44 countries (2012, background): “Given that related evidence suggests that inequality shapes a wide array of attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Andersen & Fetner, 2008; Garand, 2010; Solt, 2008), it is possible that similar mechanisms are associated with class identities.”
Does Economic Inequality Depress Electoral Participation? Testing the Schattschneider Hypothesis (2010, neutral): “cross-national comparative perspective, see Solt (2008) .”
Standardizing the World Income Inequality Database (2009, background): “…2004; Neckerman and Torche 2007).2 Although progress is being made even on these last questions (see, e.g., Anderson and Singer 2008; Petrova 2008; Solt 2008), research on inequality’s causes and consequences has been greatly hampered by data issues, namely the limited number and often…”