Economic Inequality And Political Representation In Switzerland
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Economic Inequality And Political Representation In Switzerland
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Author : Jan Rosset
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Economic Inequality And Political Representation In Switzerland written by Jan Rosset and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Political Science categories.
This book analyzes the link between economic and political inequalities and investigates the mechanisms that lead to economically rooted inequalities in the political representation of citizens’ policy preferences. Focusing on the case of Switzerland and evaluating data from the post-electoral survey, Selects 2007, the author demonstrates that the policy preferences of members of the Federal Assembly best reflect those of rich citizens. This pattern is explained by differential levels of political participation and knowledge across income groups, party finance, the fact that representatives tend to come from higher economic strata, and the failure of the party-system structure to reflect the complexity of policy preferences among citizens.
Democracy Inequality And Representation In Comparative Perspective
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Author : Pablo Beramendi
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Democracy Inequality And Representation In Comparative Perspective written by Pablo Beramendi and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Political Science categories.
The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, and economic inequality is on the rise in many other industrialized democracies as well. But the magnitude and pace of the increase differs dramatically across nations. A country’s political system and its institutions play a critical role in determining levels of inequality in a society. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation argues that the reverse is also true—inequality itself shapes political systems and institutions in powerful and often overlooked ways. In Democracy, Inequality, and Representation, distinguished political scientists and economists use a set of international databases to examine the political causes and consequences of income inequality. The volume opens with an examination of how differing systems of political representation contribute to cross-national variations in levels of inequality. Torben Iverson and David Soskice calculate that taxes and income transfers help reduce the poverty rate in Sweden by over 80 percent, while the comparable figure for the United States is only 13 percent. Noting that traditional economic models fail to account for this striking discrepancy, the authors show how variations in electoral systems lead to very different outcomes. But political causes of disparity are only one part of the equation. The contributors also examine how inequality shapes the democratic process. Pablo Beramendi and Christopher Anderson show how disparity mutes political voices: at the individual level, citizens with the lowest incomes are the least likely to vote, while high levels of inequality in a society result in diminished electoral participation overall. Thomas Cusack, Iverson, and Philipp Rehm demonstrate that uncertainty in the economy changes voters’ attitudes; the mere risk of losing one’s job generates increased popular demand for income support policies almost as much as actual unemployment does. Ronald Rogowski and Duncan McRae illustrate how changes in levels of inequality can drive reforms in political institutions themselves. Increased demand for female labor participation during World War II led to greater equality between men and women, which in turn encouraged many European countries to extend voting rights to women for the first time. The contributors to this important new volume skillfully disentangle a series of complex relationships between economics and politics to show how inequality both shapes and is shaped by policy. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation provides deeply nuanced insight into why some democracies are able to curtail inequality—while others continue to witness a division that grows ever deeper.
Inequality In The New World Discussing The Institutionalist Approach
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Author : Thomas Craemer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-05-10
Inequality In The New World Discussing The Institutionalist Approach written by Thomas Craemer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 1,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Current differences in development between North and Latin American countries led to different academic approaches explaining this phenomenon. One thesis is the institutionalist approach with two popular theories brought up by Daron Acemoglu and Engermann and Sokoloff differing in their definition on institutions. Further research confirms these theories in parts depending on their empirical methodology. My empirical work focusses on Engermann and Sokoloff, finding soft evidence for their claim of colonial activities influencing growth paths until today. I do not find evidence for colonial activities and slavery influencing modern income inequality.
The Politics Of Income Inequality In The United States
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Author : Nathan J. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-30
The Politics Of Income Inequality In The United States written by Nathan J. Kelly and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Using income surveys and various political-economic data, this book shows that income inequality is fundamental to the dynamics of US politics.
Unequal Political Participation Worldwide
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Author : Aina Gallego
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Unequal Political Participation Worldwide written by Aina Gallego and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Political Science categories.
This book describes the levels of unequal electoral participation in thirty-six countries worldwide, examines possible causes of this phenomenon, and discusses its consequences.
Understanding Inequality Social Costs And Benefits
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Author : Amanda Machin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Understanding Inequality Social Costs And Benefits written by Amanda Machin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Social Science categories.
The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, these contributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society. The role of the state, the media and the market in exacerbating and alleviating patterns of equality are all accessed alongside analysis of changing patterns of exclusion and hierarchy.
Opposition Parties In European Legislatures
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Author : Elisabetta De Giorgi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-09
Opposition Parties In European Legislatures written by Elisabetta De Giorgi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Political Science categories.
Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and international constraints. But recently these two roles have become more and more incompatible with Mair’s growing divide in European party systems between parties which claim to represent, but don’t deliver, and those which deliver, but are no longer seen to represent truer than ever. This book contains a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the behaviour of the opposition parties in eleven European democracies across Western and East Central Europe. Specifically, it investigates the parliamentary behaviour of the opposition parties, and shows that the party context is increasingly diverse. It demonstrates the emergence of two distinct types of opposition: one more cooperative, carried out by the mainstream parties (those with government aspirations), and one more adversarial focusing on government scrutiny rather than on policy alternatives (parties permanently excluded from power). It systematically and analytically explores the sources of their behaviour, whilst acknowledging that opposition is broader than its mere parliamentary behaviour. Finally, it considers the European agenda and the economic crisis as two possible intervening variables that might have an impact on the opposition parties’ behaviour and the government-opposition relations. As such, it responds to questions that are major concerns for the European democracies of the new millennium. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political parties, European politics, comparative politics and democracy.
Contested Representation
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Author : Claudia Landwehr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Contested Representation written by Claudia Landwehr and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Political Science categories.
This volume analyses the crisis of democratic representation in liberal democracies and offers reforms for representative institutions.
The Political Geography Of Inequality
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Author : Pablo Beramendi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-26
The Political Geography Of Inequality written by Pablo Beramendi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-26 with Business & Economics categories.
This is a book about redistribution and inequality in political unions, a form of democracy that involves several levels of government and that encompasses about one third of the population living under democracy around the world. The analysis concerns how different unions solve the tension between the protection of autonomy for specific territories and the redistribution of wealth among them and among their citizens.
Would Democratic Socialism Be Better
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Author : Lane Kenworthy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
Would Democratic Socialism Be Better written by Lane Kenworthy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Political Science categories.
Interest in democratic socialism is on the rise, but this wide-ranging comparison of two systems shows that the Nordic model of capitalism achieves virtually everything that contemporary democratic socialists say we should want. Socialism is back in the conversation, and recent polls suggest the share of young Americans who have a favorable impression of socialism is about the same as the share that have a favorable view of capitalism. The case for a modern democratic socialism is that capitalism is bad, or at least not very good, and that socialism would be an improvement. To fully and fairly assess democratic socialism's desirability, Lane Kenworthy argues in Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?, we need to compare it to the best version of capitalism that humans have devised: social democratic capitalism. Kenworthy offers a close look at the evidence about how capitalist economies have performed on an array of outcomes. He finds that social democratic capitalism achieves virtually everything that contemporary democratic socialists say we should want.