Income Inequality and Political Nationalism

M. Mckenna
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This paper studies how the political elite uses nationalism as a tool for altering the preferences of the voting public. A model is designed to explain how a change in income inequality motivates political parties to use nationalism. The model concludes that increased income inequality incentivises political nationalism through increased voter polarization. An empirical analysis is undertaken using information from political party manifestos as a proxy for political nationalism. Results show that wealthy countries respond to increased income inequality by increasing their level of nationalist rhetoric. When a broader country set of poor countries is used, this relationship breaks down.
收入不平等与政治民族主义
本文研究了政治精英如何利用民族主义作为改变投票公众偏好的工具。设计了一个模型来解释收入不平等的变化如何激发政党使用民族主义。该模型的结论是,收入不平等的加剧通过选民两极分化的加剧刺激了政治民族主义。利用政党宣言中的信息作为政治民族主义的代理,进行了实证分析。结果显示,富裕国家对收入不平等加剧的反应是提高民族主义言论的水平。当使用更广泛的贫困国家组时,这种关系就失效了。
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