Democracies under rising inequality: New tests of the redistributive thesis

D.E. van der Linde

Research output: ThesisDoctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU)

Abstract

Recent increases in income inequality have led a number of authors to question the redistributive thesis, which predicts higher levels of income inequality will be met with increased redistribution of income, curbing inequality. This dissertation offers a new test of this theory, and sets out to understand the great variation maintained across nations regarding their redistributive policies. In light of expectations that the future will bring further increases in income inequality, findings of this dissertation show that this will unambiguously will put pressure on governments to increase their redistributive efforts and on social insurance schemes to cover the increased career risks facing workers.
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • Utrecht University
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Unger, Brigitte, Primary supervisor
  • Groot, Loek, Co-supervisor
Award date24 Feb 2017
Publisher
Print ISBNs978-94-91870-22-4
Publication statusPublished - 24 Feb 2017

Bibliographical note

Utrecht School of Economics Dissertation Series ; 037

Keywords

  • inequality
  • redistribution
  • income distribution
  • democracy
  • voting

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