The political Kuznets Curve for Russia : income inequality, rent seeking regional elites and empirical determinants of protests during 2011/2012

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dc.contributor.authorKufenko, Vadimde
dc.contributor.authorHagemann, Haraldde
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-08T08:49:26Z
dc.date.available2024-04-08T08:49:26Z
dc.date.created2014-01-13
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe goal of this paper is to apply the theory of the political Kuznets curve to Russia and reveal the key determinants of the probability of recent protests during 2011-2012 in the Russian regions. We apply the political Kuznets curve in the time and spatial dimensions, and find mixed evidence: throughout time, we observe an almost linear and positive relation between income and income distribution, whereas in the spatial dimension there exists an evidence of a concave curve. Empirical investigation of the role of income inequality using the latent variable framework allows us to outmanoeuvre certain measurement issues and state that conventional measures of income inequality, such as the Gini coefficient, may not be able to predict protests. Instead, we use the relation of the governors? family income to the average family income in the region, a proxy for rent-seeking of regional elites, which turns out to be a positive, significant and robust determinant of the protests. Applying additional controls ensures the robustness of the results and highlights the fact that democracy score and the economic factors are also significant. Mapping the distribution of the protests provides information on the clustering effect.en
dc.identifier.swb399622403
dc.identifier.urihttps://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5784
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-9454
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSchriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung; 39
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dc.rights.urihttp://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subjectPolitical Kuznets curveen
dc.subjectRegional analysisen
dc.subjectProtestsen
dc.subjectLogiten
dc.subjectIncome inequalityen
dc.subject.ddc330
dc.subject.gndKuznets-Kurvede
dc.subject.gndRusslandde
dc.subject.gndProtestbewegungde
dc.titleThe political Kuznets Curve for Russia : income inequality, rent seeking regional elites and empirical determinants of protests during 2011/2012de
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local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlaceUniversität Hohenheimde
local.export.bibtex@techreport{Kufenko2013, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5784}, author = {Kufenko, Vadim and Hagemann, Harald}, title = {The political Kuznets Curve for Russia : income inequality, rent seeking regional elites and empirical determinants of protests during 2011/2012}, year = {2013}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthorKufenko, Vadim and Hagemann, Harald
local.export.bibtexKeyKufenko2013
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local.faculty.number3de
local.institute.number520de
local.opus.number945
local.series.issueNumber39
local.series.titleSchriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung
local.universityUniversität Hohenheimde
local.university.facultyFaculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciencesen
local.university.facultyFakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftende
local.university.instituteInstitute for Economicsen
local.university.instituteInstitut fĂĽr Volkswirtschaftslehrede

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