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Winner-Take-All Politics in Europe? European Inequality in Comparative Perspective

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  • Jonathan Hopkin

    (London School of Economics)

  • Julia Lynch

    (University of Pennsylvania)

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In this introduction to the special issue “The New Politics of Inequality in Europe,†recent literature on income inequality in the advanced democracies is summarized. It is argued that dominant accounts are too heavily focused on the United States, whereas the experience of Western European countries has been neglected. Although income inequality has risen nearly everywhere in the rich industrial democracies since the end of the 1970s, it has done so from different starting points, at different rates, and for reasons connected to different mechanisms and different parts of the distribution. Extending the analysis to Western Europe enables us to understand these variations more fully.

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  • Jonathan Hopkin & Julia Lynch, 2016. "Winner-Take-All Politics in Europe? European Inequality in Comparative Perspective," Politics & Society, , vol. 44(3), pages 335-343, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:44:y:2016:i:3:p:335-343
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329216656844
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