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The effect of inequality and polarization on democratic stability
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With the era of Trump, the popularity of inequality, polarization and democratic stability have risen even more - scholars have written many works studying separately the relationship between these concepts. This study aims to answer the specific question-To what extent do elite polarization and income inequality affect democratic stability? In other words, the research investigates the interaction effect of the elite's polarization with income inequality on democratic stability. Moreover, the elite's polarization aggregate index is calculated basing on 5 main dimensions-cleavages: LGBT, Gender Equality, Political Pluralism, Immigration. The results indicate that in countries, where the level of inequality is high, polarization affects negatively on democratic stability, while the level of inequality is low, polarization affects positively on democratic stability.
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This study investigates the impact of green entrepreneurial innovations, energy diversification, economic complexity, economic growth, energy intensity, and government spending on income inequality in seven emerging Asian economies from 1998 to 2022. Using advanced methods such as the quantile-on-quantile, cross quantilogram, and wavelet-quantile regression, we reveal that eco-innovation and energy diversification play crucial roles in ...
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Ibragimov R., Kattuman P., Skrobotov A., Econometric Reviews 2025 Vol. 44 No. 4 P. 384–415
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Zasimova L. S., Вопросы статистики 2024 Т. 31 № 6 С. 35–48
The study analyses the dynamics of economic inequality in Russia in 2006–2022 and the contribution of the social transfer system to income distribution in society. The study examines the distribution of recipients of social benefits by decile income groups, the amount of social transfers and its share in household incomes with different income levels. To identify the ...
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Alisa Shishkina, Cyril Gbeti, Journal of Asian and African Studies 2025 Vol. 60 No. 6 P. 3859–3878
Sub-Saharan Africa in general and West Africa in particular are ranked as one of the most unequal regions of the world. This study aims at investigating the direct effect of inequality on economic growth and human development (HD). To assess this effect, we use three variables and rigorous estimation techniques. The indirect effect of inequality ...
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Gulevich O., Косимова С. С., Социальная психология и общество 2024 Т. 15 № 4 С. 123–139
Objective. To analyse the relationship between secure national identification and national narcissism with political polarization, i.e. intergroup differentiation between people with different political views.
Background. Previous research has shown that individuals with a strong secure national identification are more supportive of their fellow citizens than those with a weaker national identity. At the same time, individuals ...
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Martynova E., , in: Право на пути к устойчивому развитию: материалы международной научной конференции студентов и молодых ученых. Москва, РУДН, 14 мая 2022 г., В трех томах, том 2Т. 2.: М.: Издательство РУДН, 2022. P. 119–125.
The paper aims to identify and propose policy tools to address the income inequality increase with instrumentality of international economic law (IEL). I begin with rather general but important questions of (i) why rising inequality causes concern, (ii) whether there is a need for government interventions to combat inequality, and (iii) is (and should) within-country ...
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Рюмин Дмитрий Дмитриевич, Ягодка Н. Н., Власть 2023 Т. 31 № 1 С. 95–102
This article analyzes the factors reflecting socio-economic inequality in the Russian Federation, the subjective perception of such a situation by citizens, as well as political practices that arise against the background of inequality. The authors hypothesizes that high economic inequality is transformed into social tension, which forms a demand in civil society for political modernization. ...
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Lebedeva D., Экономическая социология 2023 Т. 24 № 4 С. 145–161
In the United States, the ongoing political divisions encompass a variety of issues, including environmental concerns. Environmental protection and efforts to address climate change have become central topics in political polarization. “Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment” by Emily Huddart Kennedy, an Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of British Columbia, aims ...
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Alatas S., , in: Energy Policy Advancement: Climate Change Mitigation and International Environmental Justice.: Springer, 2022. Ch. 5 P. 93–122.
Income inequality and environmental degradation are two growing threats that received significant attention from the international community at the onset of the twenty-first century. While growing concerns about income inequality have become dominant in science, policy, and society since the 1980s, environmental deterioration has been significantly accelerating since the 1950s in most countries worldwide. In ...
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Alatas S., Akın T., Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2022 Vol. 65 No. 10 P. 1949–1974
Many studies in the literature examine the income inequality-environment nexus at the country level. In this paper, we argue that the impact of inequality on sectoral emissions might vary and should be examined by considering sectoral-level differences. We focus on 28 OECD economies and use DOLSMG, BA-OLS, and CUP-FM estimators. Our findings reveal that a ...
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Mareeva S., Slobodenyuk E., Anikin V. A., Intersections (Hungary) 2022 Vol. 8 No. 2 P. 175–196
This paper addresses the issue of the interrelation between different types of social mobility and support for reducing income inequality in contemporary Russia. Drawing from the Russian subsets of the International Social Survey Programme’s (ISSP) surveys, we estimate how this support is differentiated across experienced and expected subjective mobility. Official statistics and empirical survey data ...
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Mareeva S., Slobodenyuk E., Anikin V. A., Baltic RIM Economies Review 2021 No. 4 Article 3028
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Akoz K. K., Arbatli E., Rosenberg D., Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2022 Vol. 3 No. 3-4 P. 295–315
Although political polarization is in the center of contemporary debates on democratic backsliding, the institutional determinants of this phenomenon remain understudied. In this paper, we investigate how the form of government can affect polarization levels in a country. Specifically, we focus on the role of executive elections as the primary mechanism. Presenting both a formal ...
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Tammaru T., Sinitsyna Anastasia, Akhavi Zadegan A. et al., , in: Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China.: Springer, 2021. Ch. 3 P. 31–45.
Based on the extensive research with distinguished scholars within the book project “Socioeconomic Segregation in European Capital Cities”, this chapter summarizes the key trends in income inequality and socioeconomic segregation in Europe. We draw our data from the two last census rounds, and we focus on the most common indicators of income inequality (Gini Index) and residential ...
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The origins of this book lie in the ‘Urban Transformations: Urban Development, Migration, Segregation and Inequality’ research project, funded by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, Grant Reference: ES/N007603/1). One of the key goals of that project was to strengthen links between researchers in CASS and colleagues based at the ...
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Mareeva S., Slobodenyuk E., Anikin V. A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2022 № 1 С. 39–60
The paper addresses the issue of the perception of social inequality by the population, its dynamics and the role of social mobility as a factor of its differentiation. Based on data from all-Russian representative surveys carried out within the framework of the ISSP international program in 1992-2019 and by FCTAS RAS in 2020, it is ...
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Kichko S., Picard P., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2020. No. 239.
This paper studies the e¤ects of consumer income heterogeneity on monopolistically competitive product markets and individual welfare in the context of non-homothetic pref- erences. When expenditure of richer individuals is less sensitive to price change compared to poorer ones, a mean-preserving contraction of income distribution makes firm revenue less sensitive to price changes. This entices ...
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Arbatli E., Rosenberg D., Democratization 2021 Vol. 28 No. 2 P. 285–307
Although there is a broad consensus among political scientists that polarization is detrimental to democracy, very few empirically investigate the links between political polarization and democratic erosion. Most studies use diversity measures that fail to capture contemporary polarization, where the society is divided into two large hostile camps. In this article, we address the gap. ...
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Makhlouf Y., Kellard N., Vinogradov D., Economic Inquiry 2020 Vol. 58 No. 4 P. 1977–1994
Financial development affects income inequality differently in the short and in the long term. Investigating OECD countries from 1870–2011, we find in the short run, an improvement in financial development tends to reduce inequality, while in the long run, more finance contributes to more inequality. The short‐run effect concurs with theories advocating financial development increases ...
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Karavay A., Социологическая наука и социальная практика 2018 Т. 6 № 2 С. 34–51
This article continues the presentation of the results of the study, the first part of which was published in the previous issue of the journal. On the basis of the monitoring survey carried out by the Institute of Sociology RAS (October 2015, N=4000), various groups of factors determining the place of individuals in the income ...
Added: November 8, 2020