Category: Technology
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Protest Event Reports (PERs): A Method for Qualitative Analysis
Qualitative research into how street protests are performed and framed, especially across multiple events within a set time and geographic space, requires detailed data on past protests that is tantamount to documentary reconstruction. Whereas there are various ways to qualitatively reconstruct a single or a few protest events, the options are limited for a larger…
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Democracy and Economic Inequality
Why does economic inequality rise in democracies? Economic inequality is rising, and the United Nations reports that economic inequality impacts 70 percent of the world, even when we include democracies such as the US, UK, France, and Germany. Why does democracy not reduce economic inequality? According to democratic theories, giving everyone the vote and allowing…
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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…
Political Inequality: A blog since 2010 