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Book Review: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
Using the relational approach to explore the representation of women through Brazilian popular music: 1880 to 1970
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Democratic Practices in MERCOSUR and the OAS: What Space for Transnational Civil Society?
Italian far-right foreign fighters in the Ukrainian war. The long chain of Transnational Recruitment Network (TRN)
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Experience of university life by disabled undergraduate students: the need to consider extra-curricular opportunities
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Michael Fine, On Medicine as Colonialism
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Exploring the experiences of high-risk groups during the first UK Covid-19 lockdown through creative methods
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Levelling-up beyond the metropolis: is the UK government’s preferred governance model appropriate?
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If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Despite accumulated empirical evidence suggesting that economic inequality influences citizens’ redistributive preferences, evidence of this relationship among political elites remains scarce. This study aims at filling this gap using an elite survey data set of more than 2300 legislators from Latin America, a region with the highest levels of inequality in the world. We first examine the general association between economic inequality and political elites’ redistributive preferences. In a second step, we focus on the conditional effect of self-positioning in the left–right ideological scale. Our findings suggest a modest negative longitudinal association between economic inequality and legislators’ support for redistribution. In line with our expectations, right-wing and market-oriented legislators are less prone to support redistribution when inequality increases. However, we also find this pattern among left-wing and State-oriented members of parliament. Implications and limitations of our results are considered in the discussion section.
Despite accumulated empirical evidence suggesting that economic inequality influences citizens’ redistributive preferences, evidence of this relationship among political elites remains scarce. This study aims at filling this gap using an elite survey data set of more than 2300 legislators from Latin America, a region with the highest levels of inequality in the world. We first examine the general association between economic inequality and political elites’ redistributive preferences. In a second step, we focus on the conditional effect of self-positioning in the left–right ideological scale. Our findings suggest a modest negative longitudinal association between economic inequality and legislators’ support for redistribution. In line with our expectations, right-wing and market-oriented legislators are less prone to support redistribution when inequality increases. However, we also find this pattern among left-wing and State-oriented members of parliament. Implications and limitations of our results are considered in the discussion section.