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Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia

Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia

Park, Chong-Min
Uslaner, Eric M.

Hardcover

Series: Politics in Asia

Asian American StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138328499
ISBN13: 9781138328495
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 2 2019
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Bringing together scholars of inequality, both inside and outside of Asia, this book examines how the distribution of income has affected political institutions, representation, and behaviour in Asia.

Through detailed data analysis, the international team of contributors engages with the existing literature, arguing that the connection between inequality and political institutions is much more complex than has been suggested by previous studies from outside the region. Instead, Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia demonstrates that the micro-level evidence for the correlation between inequality and democracy is mixed and the impact of distributive politics is conditioned not only by institutional but also by historical and geopolitical factors. As such, this volume suggests that the median voter theorem and simplified partisan models prove to be ineffectual in accounting for distributive politics in East Asia.

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