The statistics detailing the socioeconomic growth of Russia and
China are impressive. On some projections, China will be the
world's largest economy by 2050, and Russia will be the sixth
largest. Yet despite this impressive record of economic growth, a
striking feature of both countries is the inegalitarian nature of
their development - notwithstanding the (post)communist legacy. On
most conventional measures, the two countries are now among the
most unequal in the world, and the level of inequality has
increased significantly since the 1990s. What effect does this
endemic economic inequality have on political stability? From
Aristotle onwards, observers have concluded that the greater the
inequality within a society, the greater the likelihood of
instability. This book addresses the relationship between economic
inequality and political stability in Russia and China. Several
chapters examine how economic performance has driven institutional
reform, while others evaluate long term trends in public opinion to
see how economic change has affected the public's views of
politics. The conclusion is that both regimes have proved adept at
adapting to rising inequality by managing the policy agenda,
guiding public opinion and co-opting or repressing political
opposition. The chapters in this book originally published as a
special issue in Europe-Asia Studies.
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