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发展经济学workshop:Economic and Political Inequality
发布日期：2015-10-26 08:46 来源：北京大学国家发展研究院
10月26日（星期一）下午2:00-3:30
发展经济学workshop
国发院中国经济研究中心 512会议室
主讲人：Pablo Beramendi，Duke University.
主持老师：张晓波，席天扬，李力行
Economic and Political Inequality
by Francesc Amat & Pablo Beramendi
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between economic and political inequality as measured by turnout differentials across income groups. Moving beyond the standard view that inequality reduces turnout we document a nonlinear relationship between economic and political inequality. Low income voters tend to participate more in politics (and as a result turnout inequality tends to be lower) when inequality is either very low or very high. By contrast, political (turnout) inequality is higher at intermediate levels of economic inequality. To account for these patterns we develop a theory that links different levels of inequality and development to parties' strategies to target and mobilize low income voters. Subsequently, the empirical predictions derived from the theoretical argument build on two tenets. First, we carry out a cross-national multilevel analysis of the relationship between inequality, strategies for political mobilization, and electoral turnout. Second, the paper identifies the relationship between political mobilization strategies, inequality and turnout by exploiting an experimental design facilitated by the randomized allocation of monitoring of corruption across Brazilian municipalities in the early 2000s. The findings lend considerable support to the argument that political mobilization strategies mediate the connection between income inequality and turnout, thus accounting for the non-linear relationship between economic and political inequality across different levels of development.
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发展经济学workshop:Economic and Political Inequality
发布日期：2015-10-26 08:46 来源：北京大学国家发展研究院
10月26日（星期一）下午2:00-3:30
发展经济学workshop
国发院中国经济研究中心 512会议室
主讲人：Pablo Beramendi，Duke University.
主持老师：张晓波，席天扬，李力行
Economic and Political Inequality
by Francesc Amat & Pablo Beramendi
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between economic and political inequality as measured by turnout differentials across income groups. Moving beyond the standard view that inequality reduces turnout we document a nonlinear relationship between economic and political inequality. Low income voters tend to participate more in politics (and as a result turnout inequality tends to be lower) when inequality is either very low or very high. By contrast, political (turnout) inequality is higher at intermediate levels of economic inequality. To account for these patterns we develop a theory that links different levels of inequality and development to parties' strategies to target and mobilize low income voters. Subsequently, the empirical predictions derived from the theoretical argument build on two tenets. First, we carry out a cross-national multilevel analysis of the relationship between inequality, strategies for political mobilization, and electoral turnout. Second, the paper identifies the relationship between political mobilization strategies, inequality and turnout by exploiting an experimental design facilitated by the randomized allocation of monitoring of corruption across Brazilian municipalities in the early 2000s. The findings lend considerable support to the argument that political mobilization strategies mediate the connection between income inequality and turnout, thus accounting for the non-linear relationship between economic and political inequality across different levels of development.
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