Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95536 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 402
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
In this article we use the high-quality data coming from the Luxembourg Income Study Project, in a panel framework, to test for the effects of electoral systems on both poverty and income inequality. We find that when de degree of proportionality of an electoral system increases, inequality and poverty decrease. We also find than in presidential regimes, the levels of poverty and inequality are higher than in parliamentary regimes.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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