high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …This paper employs k-means clustering, a multidimensional pattern recognition method, to categorize countries using … information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …

democracy. Combining democracy indicators from the V-Dem Project with inequality data from the World Income Inequality Dataset … paper seeks to address this gap by examining the impact of income inequality on democracy, focusing particularly on the …, our empirical findings indicate no discernible net effect of inequality on democracy and no support for the predicted …

inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has … generally does not suggest any conclusive results concerning economic inequality and the emergence of democracies, the survey … inequality, and it outlines the conditions for this to occur. However, additional research especially on some of the more …

majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in … the essential of democracy. It could be a road to genuine reforms3 preventing a disaster caused by the sheer rejection of …

find inequality has increased post democracy in Nigeria, more so among women than men …There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null …

-index decompositions, we show that within-country inequalities account for the bulk of global inequality, and tend to increase over the … sectors reveals that between-sector inequality matters more than between-country inequality, and becomes the dominant source … of global inequality at the end of the sample period in the CO2 and SO2 cases. A final exercise suggests that social …

main finding is that a higher level of income inequality impacts negatively on citizens' satisfaction with democracy and …This paper presents an empirical investigation about the effect of an increase in economic inequality on some aspects … of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country …

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and … national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels …. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or sub …