Inequality and governance
"Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier, and have fewer social and environment problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent and professional public administration, and the control of corruption. This book considers how economic inequality - both interpersonal and inter-ethnic - can affect the quality of governance. To this end, it will bring to…
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- Full title :Inequality and governance / Andreas P. Kyriacou.
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"Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier, and have fewer social and environment problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent and professional public administration, and the control of corruption. This book considers how economic inequality - both interpersonal and inter-ethnic - can affect the quality of governance. To this end, it will bring together insights from three different perspectives. First, a long-run historical one that exploits anthropological data on pre-industrial societies. Second, based on experimental work conducted by social psychologists and experimental economists. Third, through cross-country empirical analysis drawn from a large sample of contemporary societies. The long-run perspective relates the inequality-governance relationship to societal responses in the face of uncertainty - responses that persist today in the guise of cultural traits that vary across countries. The experimental evidence deepens our understanding of human behavior in unequal settings and in different governance contexts. Together, the long-run perspective and the experimental evidence help inform the cross-country analysis of the impact of economic inequality on governance. This analysis suggests the importance of both economic inequality and culture for the quality of governance and yields several policy implications"--
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- Publication Date:2020.
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- Publisher(s):Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
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- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781315536910, 1315536919, 9781134994588, 1134994583, 9781134994724, 1134994729, 9781134994656, 1134994656
- DOI:10.4324/9781315536910
- oclc:on1117635947
- LC Classification:HB523
- Dewey Decimal:339.2/2
Table of Contents
1. Concepts, measures and correlations; 2. Insights from the past; 3. Insights from social psychology and behavioural economics; 4. Economic inequality and governance in contemporary societies; 5. Culture, economic inequality and governance
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