'Don't play if you can't win': does economic inequality undermine political equality?

Autor: Schäfer, Armin, Schwander, Hanna
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Politikwissenschaft
Political science
economic inequality
electoral turnout
methods triangulation
developed countries
ZA1715: Eurobarometer 30 (Oct-Nov 1988)
ZA2690: Eurobarometer 44.1 (Nov-Dec 1995)
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
modules 1–5
1996–2016 (CSES 1–4)
International Social Survey Project (ISSP)
1985–2010
European Social Survey (ESS)
seven waves
2002–2014
politische Willensbildung
politische Soziologie
politische Kultur
Political Process
Elections
Political Sociology
Political Culture
Ungleichheit
Einkommensunterschied
Einkommensverteilung
Wahlbeteiligung
Demokratie
Triangulation
Industriestaat
OECD-Staat
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Wahlverhalten
soziale Ungleichheit
Eurobarometer
ISSP
European Social Survey
inequality
difference in income
income distribution
voter turnout
democracy
triangulation
industrial nation
OECD member country
Federal Republic of Germany
voting behavior
social inequality
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Zdroj: European Political Science Review, 11, 3, 395-413
Druh dokumentu: Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article
ISSN: 1755-7747
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773919000201
Popis: In this paper, we investigate whether income inequality negatively affects voter turnout. Despite some progress, the answer to this question is still debated due to methodological disagreements and differences in the selection of countries and time periods. We contribute to this debate by triangulating data and methods. More specifically, we use three kinds of data to resolve the question: first, we use cross-sectional aggregate data of 21 OECD countries in the time period from 1980 to 2014 to study the relationship between inequality and electoral participation. Second, we zoom in on the German case and examine local data from 402 administrative districts between 1998 and 2017. Focusing on within-country variation eliminates differences that are linked to features of the political system. Finally, we combine survey data with macro-data to investigate the impact of inequality on individual voting. This final step also allows us to test whether the effect of income inequality on voter turnout differs across income groups. Taken together, we offer the most comprehensive analysis of the impact of social inequality on political inequality to date. We corroborate accounts that argue that economic inequality exacerbates participatory inequality.
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
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