A novel dataset of 850,000 party statements from 12 OECD countries (1970–2020) is used to measure party emphasis on economic equality and redistribution. The dataset is crowd-coded to separate positive references to economic equality and redistribution from the rising use of equal-rights/anti-discrimination rhetoric, which previous studies have conflated with economic claims.
This article examines whether Americans overestimate economic mobility.
This study investigates why wealthier individuals in Buenos Aires might surprisingly endorse redistribution policies, despite conventional economic expectations.
New research examines the role of economic development incentives in shaping income inequality across U.S. states.
In Western Europe, redistribution preferences starkly differ between rich and poor countries.
New research examines the relationship between ethnic inequality and identity strength across Sub-Saharan African nations.
This study examines whether environmental scarcity—specifically drought severity—interacts with sociopolitical conditions to affect civil conflict onset across sub-Saharan Africa from 1962–2006. The analysis addresses a gap in cross-national evidence on conditional scarcity–conflict relationships.
This article explores how religious participation influences economic attitudes. We develop a formal model that explains both why people engage in religious activities differently and how these differences affect their views on economic policy.