Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development

By Frances Stewart. 2005

772 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Gender Studies

1. Michael R. Carter
2. S. Murshed
3. F. Stewart
4. M. Adato
5. Julian May
6. Håvard Strand
7. Gudrun Østby
8. Henrik Urdal

In Safety Research

1. Michael R. Carter
2. S. Murshed
3. F. Stewart
4. M. Adato
5. Julian May
6. Håvard Strand
7. Gudrun Østby
8. Henrik Urdal

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Murshed
2. Patricia Justino
3. Michael R. Carter
4. Håvard Strand
5. Gudrun Østby
6. Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin
7. F. Stewart
8. M. Adato

Citations in the corpus

• Evidence from India (2017, neutral): “In many countries, such horizontal inequalities are economically, socially, and politically salient, and inequalities in income, assets, employment, etc. are closely linked (Brown and Langer 2010; Cederman et al. 2011; Stewart 2005).”
• Groups and Capabilities (2005, positive): “This analysis suggests that a central source of group conflict is group difference in access to economic resources or political power, or horizontal inequalities (Stewart, 2002 ).”
• Population Pressure, Horizontal Inequality and Political Violence: A Disaggregated Study of Indonesian Provinces, 1990–2003 (2011, positive): “Individual conflict case studies, as opposed to cross-country averages, suggest that so-called ‘horizontal inequalities’ (HIs), or inequalities that represent identity-based cleavages along ethnic or religious fault lines, are important in explaining conflict (Stewart, 2002, 2008).”
• Can Cash Transfer Programmes Have ‘Transformative’ Effects? (2016, neutral): “…tackle oppressive social relations, and treating poor people as citizens with rights, with a voice in programme design and implementation (Devereux & Sabates-Wheeler, 2004; Kabeer, 1999; Koehler, 2011; Molyneux, 2006; Morgan & Yablonski, 2011; Sen, 1999; Slater & Farrington, 2006; Stewart, 2002).”
• Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China (2012, neutral): “In her seminal paper, Stewart (2001) proposed the concept of “horizontal inequality” defined as the “. . . existence of severe inequalities between culturally defined groups, . . . horizontal inequalities are multidimensional—with political, economic and social elements.””