Are Increasing Inequalities Threatening Democracy in Europe?

The latest Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) database highlights growing inequality in Europe between 1975 and 2017, both in overall socioeconomic indicators and ...

Why inequality threatens European democracy | Chatham House

Pepijn Bergsen discusses the nuances behind populist protest and explains why economic inequality undermines democracy in Europe.

Inequalities unmasked: disparities across the EU - Social Europe

While public reaction to inequality manifests itself in protests, the impact goes much deeper, permeating workplaces, degrading the labour ...

How Serious Is Europe's Anti-Democratic Threat? by Sheri Berman

With right-wing populist parties expected to make sizable gains in European elections this year, many commentators have been sounding the ...

Lindberg, S. (2019). Are Increasing Inequalities Threatening ...

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Europe's Democracy Catch-22: Is There a Way Out?

A European democracy pact could help the EU mitigate the growing risk to liberal pluralism ... threatens the EU's future and democracy.

How income inequality threatens democracy - the Loop: ECPR

In a recent study, we show that increasing income inequality leads to decreasing political trust. Furthermore, we can, to a considerable extent, ...

Inequality and Europe · "Are Increasing Inequalities Threatening Democracy in Europe?" (2019 article from Carnegie Europe's Reshaping European Democracy Project).

Challenges to democracy in Europe: Insights into a complex and ...

The lingering impact of the 2008 financial crisis, with widespread economic distress and austerity, led to growing public discontent over ...

The economic basis of democracy in Europe - Chatham House

Increased economic inequality over the past 40 years has aggravated political inequality as policymaking has been more responsive to the well- ...

Democracy Endangered: Are Increasing Inequalities Threatening ...

Even though Europe has better indicators than the rest of the world, its declining equality is naturally a serious threat to its democracy. In ...

Is Inequality a Threat to Democracy? - Oxford Academic

With the rapid increase in income inequality in a number of the advanced democracies, it has now become a concern on whether or not this should be considered ...

Support for Democracy in the Age of Rising Inequality and ...

As a result, young people and senior citizens in advanced democracies are increasingly focused on economic equality, which in turn undermines ...

Does inequality erode political trust? - Frontiers

Although a number of studies have by now investigated whether income inequality endangers democratic consolidation and stability through corroding popular ...

In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right

In order to diagnose Europe's democratic vulnerabilities, we conducted experiments that probe Europeans' ability to recognize and punish politicians who ...

Inequalities and democratic corrosion - Social Europe

Conventional indicators of inequality are however generally not adequate to explaining growing dissatisfaction with democracy. In the United ...

Democracy and inequality - Brookings Institution

Targeting inequality alone will therefore not necessarily improve democratic quality, as other variables such as corruption or racism also ...

Inequality Spurs Democratic Backsliding by Susan Stokes

New research shows that high levels of income and wealth inequality increase the risk of democratic backsliding.

Reduce inequality within and among countries - the United Nations

Inequality threatens long-term social and economic development, harms poverty reduction and destroys people's sense of fulfillment and self-worth. The ...

May: Rising inequality is a threat to democracy! - FES Connect

This issue offers updates from recent work by FES colleagues, partners and friends across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe working to tackle the ...