Open AccessExploring the Subnational Dimension of Income Inequality: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Inequality and Electoral Turnout in the Developed Countries
Author(s) -
Mahler Vincent A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.897
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1468-2478
pISSN - 0020-8833
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2478.00225
Subject(s) - inequality , economic inequality , turnout , dimension (graph theory) , demographic economics , exploratory analysis , economics , income inequality metrics , income distribution , development economics , value (mathematics) , political science , statistics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , voting , politics , pure mathematics , law , data science , computer science
This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the subnational dimension of income inequality, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. The paper undertakes two basic tasks. First, it describes the results of calculations on household‐level income data that produce indicators of intra‐ and inter‐household inequality for 191 regions in 12 developed countries for the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for 149 regions in 8 countries for the mid‐1990s. Second, the paper demonstrates the value of regional analysis by reexamining the relationship between electoral turnout and income inequality, an important substantive issue which has heretofore been explored almost entirely at the national or individual level but upon which regional‐level analysis can shed valuable light.