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Inequality and Governance (Paperback)
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Inequality and Governance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries
are richer, happier and have fewer social and environmental
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 interethnic - can affect the quality of
governance. To this end, it brings 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
behavioural 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 behaviour 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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