Tag: POLINQ
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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 Sessions at International Sociological Association 2010
I organized a general theme on political inequality for RC 18: Political Sociology at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Here is a link to the RC18 website’s call for papers. General Theme: Political Inequality in Cross-National Perspective (Convener: Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Polish Academy of Sciences) Political inequality refers…
Political Inequality: A blog since 2010 