Income inequality and election outcomes in OECD countries: New evidence following the Great Recession of 2008–2009

Bouvet, Florence; King, Sharmila K.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.006

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“…In terms of theory, Alesina et al (2004) have shown why inequality (which is often associated with high relative poverty rates) negatively affects individual utility even after controlling for individual income and several other personal characteristics. In terms of empirical analysis, Bouvet and King (2016), using data on national parliamentary election outcomes in 32 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, have identified income inequality as a potential determinant of voting behaviour, suggesting that the media attention, given to the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement during the Great Recession and Thomas Piketty's book (2014), Capital in the Twenty-First Century, have placed inequality at the centre of public debate. The importance of this variable for voting has been confirmed by several national polls as well (Bouvet and King, 2016).…”

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Anti-austerity voting in an era of economic crisis: Regional evidence from the 2015 referendum in Greece

Artelaris

Tsirbas

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The austerity measures and structural reforms that Greece had to undertake since 2010 in exchange for financial aid divided the Greek political system into pro-austerity and anti-austerity camps. These divisions reached a climax with the July 2015 referendum. The paper attempts to assess the extent that to which the geographic patterns that emerged in voting were due to the differentiated economic regional impact of economic crisis. Using economic voting theory as a benchmark, and employing spatial econometric methods, the study contributes to a largely ignored topic, known as geographies of economic voting, providing new and valuable insights for an under-researched time period.

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Anti-austerity voting in an era of economic crisis: Regional evidence from the 2015 referendum in Greece

Artelaris

Tsirbas

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…If market reforms come with high stratification of the population's income, the number of those who support reform is reduced. The research made by Bouveta and King on 32 OECD countries showed that the increase in inequality caused the increase in the number of voters who vote for the left, and vice versa (Bouveta and King, 2016).…”

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Social Differentiation Under Complex Economic Conditions

Махмудова¹,

Королева²,

Denisova³

2018

ERSJ

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The current stage of the economic development is characterized by the deterioration of the economic situation in Russia associated with the considerable decrease in the world prices for energy, the aggravation of international economic relations on the background of mutual restrictive measures taken by Russia and the West, the devaluation of the ruble and internal inflationary processes. The article describes the economic essence of inequality, its causes and consequences. The work analyzes statistical data for 2013-2016 on the dynamics and structure of the cash income of the Russians, sources of their formation and use under complicated conditions of the macroeconomic instability. The peculiarities of regional and sectoral differentiation of the population's cash income are revealed. Based on the analysis of the main statistical indicators characterizing the level and differentiation of the Russians' income, the conclusions about the modern trends of the social stratification of the Russian society have been formulated.

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“…Studies carried out in European countries found that the emergence of mass protest on the streets was generated by austerity measures adopted by incumbent governments (Bartels, 2014;Bouvet and King, 2016); therefore, the voters moved from the incumbent to the opposition regardless of whether they were left or right-wing. Moreover, in Western Europe, the beneficiaries of the crisis and the protest vote were the new populist parties.…”

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Spatial analysis of economic and social determinants of vote: the case of the European Parliament and constitutional referendum votes in Italy

Truglia¹,

Zeli

2019

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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The 2014 European Parliament election and the 2016 Constitutional Referendum in Italy occurred in the middle of two general elections. These votes, taking place respectively at the beginning and the end of the government led by Matteo Renzi of the Democratic Party (PD), represented a public test of the PD leadership. The election results were diverse in many respects, but they replicate social, economic, political, and cultural differences. In particular, between the two electoral exercises the differential electoral behaviour of South compared with the rest of the country is deepened. Moreover, the results can be interpreted as the outcome of differences in age, educational levels, social, and economic unrest; all these variables are synthesized by the territorial distribution of the vote and this helps in interpreting the evolution of political sentiment in Italy. A spatial statistics methodology is utilized to analyse votes by means of their territorial distributions. The outcomes indicate that referendum result was influenced by the economic vote. Apart from the substance of the constitutional reform, the referendum result can be traced back to economic factors: the absence of perceived economic improvements and the persistence of high unemployment.

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Income inequality and election outcomes in OECD countries: New evidence following the Great Recession of 2008–2009

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Anti-austerity voting in an era of economic crisis: Regional evidence from the 2015 referendum in Greece

Anti-austerity voting in an era of economic crisis: Regional evidence from the 2015 referendum in Greece

Social Differentiation Under Complex Economic Conditions

Spatial analysis of economic and social determinants of vote: the case of the European Parliament and constitutional referendum votes in Italy

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