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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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This 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
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income inequality; democracy;
democratization
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JEL
classification
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O15
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