Good verses bad political institutions and economic welfare.
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Date
2015
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International Journal of Economics and Empirical Research.
Abstract
The paper finds that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal
outcomes especially when it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas
autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact on
income inequalities are insignificant. Though under good economic management,
autocracies may redistribute incomes from the richest to the poorest, more generally
an autocratic set up violates the median voter hypothesis. The results also show that
political stability and voice and accountability are more sensitive to inequalities than
democracy and autocracy which is to say that the countries which are politically
stable and practice accountability also form more equal societies.
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Economics, Institutions, Trade Liberalisation, Redistribution, Wage Inequality
Citation
Mamoon, D. (2015). Good verses Bad Political Institutions and Economic Welfare.International Journal of Economics and Empirical Research. 3(4), 165-175.(Dawood Mamoon)