A Revisit to Political Institutions and Inequality
PINAR DENIZ,
Thanasis Stengos
Abstract:This study revisits the drivers of income inequality with political institutions at the core. We take a multidimensional institutional approach by defining political institutions in terms of governance, political freedom, political fragmentation and political scale. The main contributions of our study are (i) presenting the most extensive analysis up-to-date of the role of political institutions by decomposing it into distinct elements and (ii) considering the difficulty and the lack of consensus and clarity r… Show more
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