Party to inequality: Right party power and income inequality in affluent Western democracies
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Party to inequality: Right party power and income inequality in affluent Western democracies
Much social science suggests that income inequality is a product of economic and demographic factors and recent work highlights the influence of Leftist politics in affluent Western democracies. But, prior research has neglected rightist politics. We examine the impact of cumulative right party power on three measures of income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 16 affluent Western democracie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0276-5624
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2007.01.001