Politics and Income Inequality: Does Politics Still Matter in New Democracies

Dae Jin Yi

New Political Economy, 2013, vol. 18, issue 5, 653-679

Abstract: Does politics still matter for reducing income inequality in new democracies? The standard explanation is that political institutions, in particular the left government and proportional representation, are negatively associated with income inequality among advanced industrial countries, but there have been so few studies attempting to explain the variation of distributional outcomes across new democracies. This article tests the hypotheses about the effects of political institutions on income inequality with unbalanced pooled time-series cross-sectional data that cover 26 fledgling democracies for 1975-2006. The evidence presented here suggests that, other things being equal, a parliamentary system and PR are substantially more likely to be associated with lower levels of income inequality, but a left government and more years of democracy do not appear to be related to lower income inequality.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2013.736956

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