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| Volume 1, No. 2,
August 2002
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| Democracy
and Changes in Income Inequality |
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| Kevin Sylwester |
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Department of Economics,
Southern Illinois University, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract |
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paper explores associations between changes in income inequality
and the degree of both democracy and democratization. Countries
with less democracy and those becoming less democratic have increasing
income inequality although the relation is weaker within less developed
countries. |
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Key words: income
inequality; democracy; democratization |
JEL
classification:
O15
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