Democracy, Inequality, and Representation in Comparative Perspective

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Index Boldface numbers refer to figures and tables. Aaron, H. Joseph, 40 absolute income, and electoral participation , 279–82 absolutism, 366–67 abstention, electoral, 279, 290, 291, 292, 295–99, 301–2 Acemoglu, D., 26, 362, 371, 399 Adema, W., 65 African Americans, 368–69 age analysis: political participation, 288; redistribution preference, 212 Ahlquist, J., 397 Alesina, A., 160n7, 380n1, 407 Allan, J., 86n5, 7 Almond, G., 281, 306n1 Alt, J., 6 American Political Science Review, 96 Anderson, C., 407 Ansell, B., 99 Armingeon, K., 253, 348 Atkinson, A., 26, 30, 54n1 Atkinson index, 30 attitudinal variables, 288 Austen-Smith, D., 9 Australia: disposable income inequality , 28, 135, 306; household income inequality, 326; income inequality and voter turnout, 294; market income inequality, 133; party and electoral systems, 104; political mobilization , 331; political parties, 329; social spending trends, 72; wage inequality , 130, 172, 326; welfare benefit generosity, 70, 72 Austria: disposable income inequality, 28, 306; electoral system, 103; income inequality and voter turnout, 294; party and electoral systems, 104; social spending trends, 72; wage inequality, 172; welfare benefit generosity, 70, 72 Bank of Italy, 51 Banks, J., 9 Bartels, L., 339 BEA. See Bureau of Economic Analysis Beck, N., 182 Beck, T., 158 Becker, I., 49 Belgium: CD-left party coalitions, 99; disposable income inequality, 28, 135, 306; household income inequality , 326; income inequality and voter turnout, 294; labor force par- Belgium (continued) ticipation, 373; party and electoral systems, 104; political mobilization, 331; political parties, 329; political polarization, 342, 345; social spending trends, 72; voting rights, 373; wage distribution, 350n6; wage inequality, 130, 172, 326; welfare benefit generosity, 70, 72 Benabou, R., 399–400 Benoit, K., 327 Beramendi, P., 177 Bergstrom, T., 284, 307n2 bicameralism, 105, 249 bivariate correlation, 77–78, 283 Black Death, 365 Blais, A., 212–13 Blake, D., 212–13 Blanchard, O., 221, 230 Blue Book (BB), 42 Blume, L., 284 Blyth, M., 141 Boix, C., 26, 99, 283, 356, 371 Bos, W., 48 Bradley, D., 7, 78, 81, 87n16, 87n17, 92, 162n21, 163n25, 164n28 Brady, D., 7 Brady, H., 281 Brandolini, A., 26, 41, 43, 51, 54n1 Britain. See United Kingdom British Household Panel Survey, 42 bubonic plague, 365 Buckley, W., 381n13 Budge, I., 191, 327 Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), 40, 41, 55n8 Busemeyer, M., 99 business cycle, 279 Canada: disposable income inequality, 28, 135, 306; income inequality and voter turnout, 294; income inequality trends, 42–45; market income inequality, 133; minimum wage, 144, 161n12; net worth inequality , 403; party and electoral systems, 104; social spending trends, 72; wage inequality, 130, 172; wealth inequality, 403; welfare benefit generosity, 70, 72 capital income, 129, 131, 132, 159n4 capital market openness, definition of, 79 Card, D., 161n12 Castles, F., 111 causality, 285, 339, 355–56 CBO. See Congressional Budget Office CD (Christian Democratic) parties. See Christian Democratic parties center of gravity (CoG), political, 110, 222, 314, 322–23, 331–32 Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), 48 centrist governments, 110–11 Charles Martel, 364–65 Chevalier, P., 50 Christian Democratic (CD) parties: and female labor force participation , 258; in Germany, 111; and income redistribution, 137–38; and left-centered parties’ influence, 98–99; measurement of, 255; and welfare benefit generosity, 247 The Civic Culture (Almond and Verba), 281 Clark, G., 369 class, 26, 281, 287–88 CMEs. See coordinated market economies CMP. See Comparative Manifesto Project coalition formation, model of, 96–101 Cobb-Douglas production function, 358 collective action, 284, 408 college education, 146, 149 418 Index Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP), 313, 322, 324, 327–28 Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset (CWED), 62 Concialdi, P., 50 Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 42 “consensus view” of economic inequality , 127–28 constitutional veto points, 79, 105, 109 consumption, government, 179, 188, 190, 195n15, 17 coordinated market economies (CMEs), 138–40 coordination, economic. See economic coordination corporate income, taxes on, 180–82, 191 corporatism: definition of, 190; economic characteristics, 194 n.6; equality requirement, 396–97; and income skew, 258; measurement of, 254; and partisanship, 183, 186, 188, 189; and policy, 176–77, 183, 186, 188; traits of, 176 counterfactual problem, 401–2 CPS. See Current Population Survey cross-national comparisons: disposable income differences, 27–36; electoral institutions and systems, 104; household income inequality, 326; income inequality trends, 3–4, 40–51; in-kind benefits, 39–40; market income inequality, 38, 131–33, 324–25; methodology, 26; 90/10 ratio, 28, 129, 130, 324, 326; redistribution, 37–39, 48–50; research considerations...