Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213528 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 1131
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
The paper is about the political consequences of increasing economic inequality in Western economies. Political theorists have often stressed that democracy is in troubles when its population is not broadly uniform in income and wealth because unequal economic resources can easily translate into a surplus of political resources in the hands of the few. The connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large to provide robust assessments of their complex relationship. The aim of this paper is to review the links between the two and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy.
Subjects: 
Inequality
Social consequences
Political consequences
Democracy change
JEL: 
A13
D6
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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