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Democracy and Income Inequality : An Empirical Analysis

Standard political economy theories suggest that democratization has a moderating effect on income inequality. But the empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. The authors take another look at the issue. The authors...

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Main Authors:	Gradstein, Mark, Milanovic, Branko, Ying, Yvonne
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	COALITION GOVERNMENTS COMMUNISM COMMUNIST COMMUNIST PARTY COUNTRY DUMMIES COUNTRY EFFECTS CROSS- COUNTRY DIFFERENCES CROSS-COUNTRY REGRESSION DATA SET DECREASING FUNCTION DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIZATION DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DICTATORSHIP DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EGALITARIAN DISTRIBUTION EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL ESTIMATION EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL TEST GDP GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH RATE HUMAN RESOURCES IDEOLOGIES INCOME INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCREASED INEQUALITY INCREASING FUNCTION INEQUALITY INEQUALITY DATA INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASURES LABOR SUPPLY LACK OF TRANSPARENCY LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS LEGISLATURE MEDIAN INCOME MEDIAN VOTER MINISTERS NATIONS NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP OLIGARCHY PARLIAMENT PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOME LEVELS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL RIGHTS POLITICAL SCIENTISTS POLITICAL SYSTEM PRESIDENTS PRIME MINISTER PRIME MINISTERS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY REFERENDUM REGRESSION ANALYSIS REPUBLICS RESOURCE ALLOCATION REVERSE CAUSALITY REVERSE CAUSATION SAM TAX RATE TAXATION TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSPARENCY VETO VETO POWER VOTING WAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/03/1047466/democracy-income-inequality-empirical-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19685

Democracy and Income Inequality : An Empirical Analysis

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