The Effect of Political Democracy and Social Democracy on Equality in Industrial Societies: A Cross-National Comparison

Hewitt, Christopher

doi:10.2307/2094750

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“…Hewitt (1977) for example, in a sample of 25 industrialized countries failed to find a significant relationship, after properly controlling for other variables.…”

Section: Civil Liberties and Political Rightsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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

Gradstein

Milanović

2004

Journal of Economic Surveys

119

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Abstract. The effect of the distribution of political rights on income inequality has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence. Our reading of the literature suggests that formal exclusion from the political process through restrictions on the voting franchise appears to have caused a high degree of economic inequality, and democratization in the form of franchise expansion especially for women, has more often than not led to an expansion in redistribution, at least in the small sample of episodes studied. In a less pronounced way, albeit more emphatically compared to the ambiguous results of the earlier research, the recent evidence indicates an inverse relationship between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience of the East European countries, however, seems to some extent to go against these conclusions. This, in turn, opens possible new vistas for research, namely the need to incorporate the length of democratic experience and the role played by ideology and social values.

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“…Hewitt (1977) for example, in a sample of 25 industrialized countries failed to find a significant relationship, after properly controlling for other variables.…”

Section: Civil Liberties and Political Rightsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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

Gradstein

Milanović

2004

Journal of Economic Surveys

119

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“…Other studies have found this relationship to be curvilinear, with countries at intermediate levels of democracy experiencing the highest levels of income inequality Crenshaw 1992). Still others have found no relationship between democracy and income inequality aackman Hewitt 1977;Bollen and Grandjean 1981;Bollen and Jackman 1985).…”

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confidence: 96%

The Global Economy and Changes in the Determinants of Cross-National Income Inequality

Morris¹

1999

Social Thought and Research

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“…Thus, while democratic societies give voice to lower classes and thereby generate more equal distributions of income (e.g. Hewitt 1977;Muller 1988;c.f. Lee 2005;Simpson 1990), non-core countries are less likely to develop the capacity for sustained redistributive policies and democratic institutions than core countries (Bollen 1983;1987).…”

Section: World-system Dynamics and Unobservablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Within-Country Inequality and the Modern World-System: A Theoretical Reprise and Empirical First Step

Mahutga

Kwon

Grainger

2011

JWSR

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The Effect of Political Democracy and Social Democracy on Equality in Industrial Societies: A Cross-National Comparison

Cited by 199 publications

References 17 publications

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

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

The Global Economy and Changes in the Determinants of Cross-National Income Inequality

Within-Country Inequality and the Modern World-System: A Theoretical Reprise and Empirical First Step

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