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When Can the Rabble Redistribute? Democratization and Income Distribution in Low- and Middle-income Countries

In: Institutions and Market Economies

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  • Philip Nel

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The last decades of the twentieth century experienced an extensive introduction and/or deepening of electoral democracy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); a series of events that Diamond calls ‘a democratic breakthrough without precedent in world history’ (Diamond, 1999: 24).1 However, contrary to the optimistic expectation of many analysts and decision-makers in Western democracies that all good things go together, the available evidence suggests that episodes of positive regime change in LMICs as a rule have seldom been followed by a reduction of wealth and income inequality in those countries. The purpose of this chapter is to propose an explanation for this anomaly.

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  • Philip Nel, 2007. "When Can the Rabble Redistribute? Democratization and Income Distribution in Low- and Middle-income Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: W. R. Garside (ed.), Institutions and Market Economies, chapter 10, pages 222-249, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-38994-6_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230389946_10
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    1. Branko MILANOVIC, 2019. "Market income inequality, left-wing political parties, and redistribution in Latin America," Working Paper cd1121c5-2962-4233-85cc-c, Agence française de développement.
    2. Milanovic, Branko, 2010. "Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis: An assessment," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 147-154, March.

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