Author: jdubrow2000
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How Do Digital Technologies Impact Political Inequality?
This post discusses the relationship between digital technologies — the internet and its hardware — and political inequality. This is part of the POLINQ project. In this project, we have understood that political inequality has many definitions. Thesis: Digital technologies have enabled a dystopic political inequality where politics is possible for the few and impossible…
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New Project: Political Voice and Economic Inequality across Nations and Time
Poland’s National Science Centre has awarded a grant for the project, “Political Voice and Economic Inequality across Nations and Time” (2016/23/B/HS6/03916) for the period 2017 -2020. The Principal Investigator is Joshua K. Dubrow, Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the project is to advance…
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When Local Governments Protested the USA Patriot Act
Mass Protests over Federal Government Policy The US Presidential of 2016 election sparked protests across the nation. There were mass demonstrations over immigration and refugee policies, pro-Trump rallies, town hall debates over health care, the Women’s March on Washington, and declarations of support for sanctuary cities, to name just a few. We have not seen such…
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Elections during War: Political Inequality of Ukraine’s IDPs
by Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyżanowska, University of Lodz, and Nika Palaguta, Polish Academy of Sciences By law, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) should enjoy all the relevant rights and freedoms guaranteed by the legal system. In a recent article in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the authors explain how IDPs living under military conflict in Ukraine suffer inequality under discriminatory legislation…
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Political Inequality and the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine
This is a guest post by Olga Zelinska, Polish Academy of Sciences, based on an early article (2015) on local Maidans. The Start of Euromaidan in Ukraine It was the summer of 2013 and the people of Ukraine felt helpless. During this time of ‘soft authoritarianism,’ they saw rampant corruption while corporations and other business…
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Neoliberalism and Democracy
Neoliberalism has degraded democracy through its ideological control over the economy, polity, and the cultural sphere.
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Elites care about inequality, but probably not in the way that you think
This is a guest post by Matias Lopez, Universidad Católica, Chile. Do the elite care about inequality? A survey of over 800 elites in six Latin American countries reveals that they acknowledge economic inequality as a problem, but see little incentive to reduce inequality. The elite from stronger and more stable democracies tend to be…
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The Political Voice of Xenophobes
This is a guest post by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Polish Academy of Sciences and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, The Ohio State University Xenophobes and those discriminated based on ethnicity have political voice In an inclusive and tolerant society that values political equality, expression of political voice is supposed to be open to everyone. Let’s consider those who…
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The Nationalist Retrenchment Hypothesis
As populist nationalists push back on neoliberal arguments on globalization, we see a diminished power of international bodies who attempt to solve global problems. Where once there was the hope of global governance, there is now Trumpism, John Birch-ism, Bolsanaro-ism, Orban-ism, and other societal ills. A main cause of why nationalist retrenchment became so, well,…
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Five Problems with Measuring Political Inequality
Five reasons why measuring political inequality is difficult.
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What Is Political Inequality and How Unequal Are We?
We Know a lot about Economic Inequality When the Occupy Wall Street movement reached its heyday in the Autumn of 2011, spreading to cities all over the world, the protesters’ rallying cry was, “We are the 99 percent.” They hoped for political change, among other things, but “99” was mainly understood as a statement about…
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Do Newspapers Write about Democracy and Equality?
What is political inequality? Political inequality is both unequal influence over decisions made by political bodies and the unequal outcomes of those decisions. Political equality is “a fundamental premise of democracy” (quoting celebrated political theorist Robert Dahl). The news media has long reflected and shaped modern societies. In their pages we should expect that they present the…
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Political Inequality Explained
Here is a short video by Joshua K. Dubrow based on Chapter 1 of the book, Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy
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New Book by the Working Group: Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy
Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy: Cross-national Perspectives Edited by Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow Routledge – 2014 – 154 pages Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology The world has witnessed the creation of new democracies and the maturing of old ones. Yet, everywhere there is democracy, there is also political inequality. Voices of everyday folk struggle…
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Democracy, Global Governance, and Political Inequality: A Special Issue of Sociologias and the International Journal of Sociology
Members of the Working Group on Political inequality — Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow and Soraya Vargas Cortes — have guest edited special issues on the the topic of, “Democracy, Global Governance, and Political Inequality.” The table of context for each issue is here. The first, “Desigualdade Política, Democracia e Governança Global,” is published in Sociologias, Brazil’s…
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