Political Polarization and Income Inequality

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nolan M. McCarty ◽  
Keith T. Poole ◽  
Howard Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Political Polarization

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Political Polarization: Time Series Evidence Over Nine Decades

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1408) ◽  
Author(s):  
John V. Duca ◽  
◽  
Jason L. Saving ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Political Polarization

scholarly journals Essays on inequality, economic growth and political polarization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Juan Carlos Peña
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Advanced Economies

Economic inequality has moved into the focus of academic debate in the last decade as it gained increasing public attention in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2007. The present dissertation contributes to the growing and existing literature on income inequality by presenting three contributions that empirically analyze the economic, political and social consequences of income inequality. Chapter 1 explores the dynamic relationship between economic growth and the different metrics of income inequality using a compiled dataset covering 110 advanced and developing economies from 1980 to 2016. Chapter 2 examines the macroeconomic and social determinants of voting behavior, and especially of political polarization, using a compiled dataset for 20 advanced economies from 1980 to 2016 which covers 291 parliamentary elections. Finally, chapter 3 investigates the effects of group identity and income inequality on social preferences and polarization by means of a laboratory experiment.

scholarly journals Has Income Inequality or Media Fragmentation Increased Political Polarization?

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (1206) ◽  
Author(s):  
John V. Duca ◽  
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Jason L. Saving ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Media Fragmentation

scholarly journals Political Polarization and the Size of Government

2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIK LINDQVIST ◽  
ROBERT ÖSTLING
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Size Of Government ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we study the relationship between political polarization and public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between polarization and the size of government in undemocratic countries. The results are robust to a large set of control variables, including gross domestic product per capita and income inequality.

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