Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?
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Democracy; Inequality; Structural transformation; Middle-class bias; Captured democracy;All these keywords.
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- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
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