Political implications of economic inequality : a literature survey

Geiger, Niels; Baric, Laura-Kristin

Political implications of economic inequality : a literature survey

dc.contributor.author	Geiger, Niels	de
dc.contributor.author	Baric, Laura-Kristin	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:58:22Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:58:22Z
dc.date.created	2020-01-14
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	This survey documents the different arguments discussed in the academic literature on whether and how economic inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has often focused on new and emerging democracies, this paper also provides an overview of the more recent literature in economics and neighboring fields that discusses democratization as well as established democracies’ stability and other institutional traits. In doing so, the survey contains a critical review of both theoretical and empirical contributions on the topic. The different arguments are systematically evaluated and their core hypotheses are distilled in order to document the main lines of argumentation prevalent in the literature. Together with a summary of the theoretical arguments, the main findings of related empirical research are also documented and shortly discussed. Whereas taken together, research so far generally does not suggest any conclusive results concerning economic inequality and the emergence of democracies, the survey indicates that the stability and institutional quality of established democracies can be negatively affected by economic inequality, and it outlines the conditions for this to occur. However, additional research especially on some of the more tentative hypotheses is required to allow for a more profound understanding of the different channels and relationships. Therefore, points of departure for further research, e. g. on how to operationalize specific theoretical constructs of interest and thereby on how to get a better understanding of the relations, are also suggested.	en
dc.identifier.swb	1687246912
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6458
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-16972
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2019,14
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Economic inequality	en
dc.subject	Institutions	en
dc.subject	Democracy	en
dc.subject	Political stability	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Demokratie	de
dc.subject.gnd	Ungleichheit	de
dc.title	Political implications of economic inequality : a literature survey	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1697
local.series.issueNumber	2019,14
local.series.title	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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