Inequality and Governance

ISBN-13: 9780367777678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Andreas P. Kyriacou

Opis

This book considers how interpersonal and inter-ethnic economic inequality can affect the quality of governance. It brings together insights from several different perspectives. This analysis shows the importance of both economic inequality and culture for the quality of governance and yields several policy implications.

Spis treści

List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction. 2. Concepts, measures and correlations.  3. Insights from the past 4. Insights from social psychology and behavioural economics. 5. Economic inequality and governance in contemporary societies. 6. Culture, economic inequality and governance. 7. Conclusion.
Appendix. References. Index.

O autorze

Andreas P. Kyriacou is Professor of Economics at the Universitat de Girona (Spain). Over the years, he has worked on a range of research topics mostly from the perspective of Institutional Economics. These include federalism and decentralisation, non-economic motives driving individual behaviour and, more recently, the causes and consequences of government quality.