RAS Social ScienceЭкономика и математические методы Economics and the Mathematical Methods

  • ISSN (Print) 0424-7388
  • ISSN (Online) 3034-6177

INCOME CONCENTRATION, DEMOCRACY INSTABILITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

PII
S042473880000616-6-1
DOI
10.7868/S0000616-6-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
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Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue №1
Pages
15-29
Abstract
In the works (Polterovich, Popov, 2007; Polterovich, Popov, Tonis, 2007, 2008), it was established that when the quality of institutions is low, democratization negatively affects economicgrowth; some mechanisms of this influence were studied. The article provides an overviewof the relevant results and explores another mechanism related to income distribution.Based on econometric calculations, it is shown that with imperfect institutions,democratization and an increase in resource wealth are associated with an increase in inequality, which increases the level of inequality.instability of democracy. And the instability of the political regime, in turn, leads to adeterioration in the quality of institutions and negatively affects the growth rate. Empirical observationsare explained in the framework of a game-theoretic model that demonstrates the instability ofdemocracy with weak institutions and a high concentration of income.
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Date of publication
01.01.2009
Year of publication
2009
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0
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1057

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