Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and The Middle Class
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9708728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anirban Mitra (0000-0001-6297-1361, University of Oslo), Shabana Mitra (0000-0003-1391-332X, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 602 |
| Pages | 1119-1152 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12318 |
| OpenAlex | W2165476655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 20 |
We investigate how electoral competition affects the income distribution in society. We utilise a standard probabilistic voting setup where parties compete at two stages. Our model delivers that greater electoral competition in a district results in equalisation of incomes therein. We check for these relationships using data from Indian national elections which are combined with consumption expenditure data rounds from the National Sample Survey Organization (1987–8 and 2004–5) to yield a district level panel. Our OLS, 2‐SLS and IIV analyses consistently inform that close elections lead to lower inequality and polarisation indicating a larger middle class
Competition (biology · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Income distribution · Inequality · Market economy · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Sample (material · Sociology · Voting · Yield (engineering · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |