Income inequality and partisan polarization

• In Event: Inequality, Polarization, and Representation

Brief Overview

This article disentangles the relationships between elite polarization and inequality in the United States over the 1913 to 2018 period. We find that general income inequality—measured by Gini coefficients— has two pathways in concentrating wealth.

Authors

• Gregory Gregory Koger, University of Miami

• Matthew J. Lebo, Western University

• Yi-Ta Lu, Stony Brook University