The comparative political economy of inequality: the maturation of an emerging field

2026/06/02 by Marius R. Busemeyer · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism

paper · doi:10.1080/01402382.2026.2662882

Citations

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• Redistribution attitudes and vote choice across the educational divide
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• Fairness of inequality and support for redistribution: directly comparing citizens and legislators
• Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation
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• Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020

Discussions

• 📈 Does economic inequality feed on itself? Marius Busemeyer takes stock of 25 years of political economy research and argues inequality has become self-reinforcing: rising gaps depress turnout and b [bsky, 11 points, 0 comments]