Inequality and Democracy – Comparative Democracy Takeover EP2

Are democracies more equal than autocracies? What does inequality mean? Julian Garritzmann and Marius Busemeyer talk in this episode about this questions and the complicated relationship between inequality and democracy .

Check out the literature and interesting links mentioned during the episode:

• Politics of Inequality Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/)
• The Cluster’s Inequality Barometer (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/topics/the-inequality-barometer/)
• Wilkinson/Pickett: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_Spirit_Level/WJbtCAAAQBAJ?hl=de)
• Hacker/Pierson: Winner Take All Politics (https://www.google.de/books/edition/Winner_Take_All_Politics/Pjofa9Z1ProC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=hacker+pierson+winner+take+all&printsec=frontcover)
• Garritzmann: Political Economy of Higher Education Finance (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-29913-6)
• Busemeyer/Tober: European integration and the political economy of inequality (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1465116515591832?casa_token=yx8aOs_yMWYAAAAA:Xti1gHxyPYzANmxtal0csUwKq-2_dKNPL0M0Tc8ew66nSyKd-eKo_OHlEb-n2qso4hGfvx7HT4wy)
• Schakel/Burgoon/Hakhverdian: Real but unequal representation in Welfare State Reform (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0032329219897984)
• Busemeyer/Garritzmann/Neimanns: A loud but noisy signal? Public opinion and education reform in Western Europe (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/loud-but-noisy-signal/2BE73266F8A69275E7D14FA784B7FFC0)
• Carles Boix: Democracy and Redistribution (https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=2_nYWobBKlQC&oi=fnd&pg=PP10&dq=carles+boix+democracy+and+redistribution&ots=BLVGkHl0eT&sig=0Tc_P4Xb11kSwjcK-dWv9h19Jps#v=onepage&q=carles%20boix%20democracy%20and%20redistribution&f=false)
• Dahl: Polyarchy (https://www.google.de/books/edition/Polyarchy/LRG7ngEACAAJ?hl=de)
• Anna Krämling’s research: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/50696318/Anna_Krämling
• Lea Elsässer’s research: https://vergleich.politik.uni-mainz.de/dr-lea-elsaesser/
• Susanne Garritzmann’s research: https://sites.google.com/view/sgarritzmann/

Also check this nice tool on perception of inequality by the OECD: https://www.compareyourincome.org