Category: Articles in Political Inequality
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Interview with Constantin Manuel Bosancianu on Party–Voter Ideological Congruence and Socioeconomic Biases in Representation
Constantin Manuel Bosancianu, of WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany, presented the paper, “Party–Voter Ideological Congruence and Socio-Economic Biases in Representation: OECD over the Past 5 Decades” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland in December 2018. Constantin Manuel Bosancianu is a postdoctoral researcher in the “Institutions and Political Inequality” unit at…
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Interview with Jan Falkowski on Political Power and Land Inequality in Poland
Jan Falkowski, of the University of Warsaw, Poland, recently presented a paper, “Do Political and Economic Inequalities Go Together? Mayors’ Turnover, Elite Families and the Distribution of Agricultural Land” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland. Jan Falkowski is an Assistant Professor with the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Chair…
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Interview with Katerina Vrablikova on Economic Hardship, Politicization and Protest
Katerina Vrablikova, of the University of Bath, UK, recently presented a paper, “Economic Hardship, Politicization and Protest in Western Democracies,” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland. Since Fall 2018, Kateřina Vráblíková has been a senior lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of…
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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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Neoliberalism and Democracy
Neoliberalism has degraded democracy through its ideological control over the economy, polity, and the cultural sphere.
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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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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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Political Inequality in Latin America: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Sociology
Members of the Working Group on Political inequality have guest edited a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology, “Political Inequality in Latin America.” The issue is now available on-line. For the table of contents and abstracts, please click here.
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Pew Study on Political Participation in America
For recent data on voice inequality with respect to non-electoral political participation, see The Internet and Civic Engagement Sep 1, 2009 by Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry Brady, a Pew research study.
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Cross-National Measures of Political inequality of Voice
Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2010. “Cross-National Measures of Political Inequality of Voice.” ASK: Research and Methods 19: 93-110. ABSTRACT Social scientists have long argued that political power is a key dimension of stratification, yet few empirically analyze political inequality or explicitly discuss the methodological implications of their measures of it. Political inequality is a distinct dimension…
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Does the Internet Reduce Political Inequality of Voice?
Not yet and not in America, according to a recent article in Perspectives on Politics: Perspectives on Politics, Volume 8, issue 2 (June 2010), p. 487-509 Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet Schlozman, Kay Lehman; Verba, Sidney; Brady, Henry E What is the impact of the possibility of political participation on the…
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Notes on Winters and Page’s “Oligarchy in the U.S.?”
In this post, I summarize the article “Oligarchy in the U.S.,” by Winters and Page (2009). Winters and Page: Oligarchy in the USA Winters and Page (Hereafter, WP) argue that all modern democracies, regardless of level of democracy, can be oligarchies. Oligarchy and democracy can, and do, “coexist comfortably” (731). WP ask whether the U.S.…
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