The Rise of Economic Inequality as a Voting Issue and the Role of Media Coverage

• In Event: Comparative Perspectives on Mass Media and Politics

Brief Overview

In OECD countries, media coverage of income inequality is not related to actual changes in income inequality but to extra-economic factors. Only the extra-economic coverage of income inequality -not actual Gini index- affect economic attitudes.

Authors

• Florence Bouvet, Sonoma State University

• Puspa Delima Amri, Sonoma State University