Do Voters in New Democracies Care About Income Inequality? The Role of Media Freedom

• In Event: Politics of Inequality

Brief Overview

We study the relevance of income inequality in new democracies’ parliamentary elections and find that increasing income inequality is negatively and significantly related to vote for the incumbent but only in countries with greater media freedom.

Authors

• Florence Bouvet, Sonoma State University

• Puspa Delima Amri, Sonoma State University