Political Inequality in Rich Democracies

IF 9.7 1区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Annual Review of Political Science Pub Date : 2023-03-17 DOI:10.1146/annurev-polisci-052521-094617

Lea Elsässer, Armin Schäfer

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Abstract

In this review, we focus on political inequality in rich democracies. In the two main sections, we look at participation and representation, respectively. The former discusses whether rising income inequality and the weakening of trade unions have led to higher levels of inequality in participation. The latter looks at substantive and descriptive representation and asks how they might be linked. Research highlights that people with fewer individual resources participate much less than those with more resources, and collective organizations lose their ability to counter these trends. In terms of representation, the pattern is very similar. Not only are the opinions of decision-makers more congruent with those of the better off but policy choices also reflect their preferences more clearly. As the social distance between rulers and ruled increases, representative democracy gets more biased in favor of higher-status social groups. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Political Science, Volume 26 is June 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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富裕民主国家的政治不平等

在这篇综述中，我们关注富裕民主国家的政治不平等。在这两个主要部分中，我们分别关注参与和代表。前者讨论了收入不平等的加剧和工会的削弱是否导致了参与不平等的加剧。后者着眼于实质性和描述性表征，并询问它们如何联系起来。研究强调，个人资源较少的人比资源较多的人参与得少得多，集体组织失去了对抗这些趋势的能力。在表示方面，模式非常相似。不仅决策者的意见与富人的意见更加一致，而且政策选择也更清楚地反映了他们的偏好。随着统治者和被统治者之间的社会距离越来越远，代议制民主越来越偏向于地位较高的社会群体。预计《政治学年度评论》第26卷的最终在线出版日期为2023年6月。修订后的估计数请参阅http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates。

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Annual Review of Political Science POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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15.20

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4.60%

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期刊介绍： The Annual Review of Political Science has been published since 1998 to provide comprehensive coverage of critical advancements in the field. It encompasses a wide range of subjects within Political Science, such as political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.