Stephen White (Glasgow)

Social Inequality and Political Instability: What does the Survey Evidence Tell Us?

Outline paper prepared for the ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, 3-6 September 2014Outline paper prepared for the BASEES annual conference, Cambridge, 5-7 April 2014

Measuring inequality: official data

Source: Russian Federation State Statistics Service (http://www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_main/rosstat/en/main/); OECD statistics datalab; World Bank Development Indicators.

Measuring inequality: survey data

Q. How would you place your views on this scale? 1 means you agree completely with the statement on the left; 10 means you agree completely with the statement on the right; and if your views fall somewhere in between, you can choose any number in between. Sentences: Incomes should be made more equal vs We need larger income differences as incentives.

Source: Glasgow University survey, fieldwork January 2014; World Values Survey.

Measuring inequality: crosstabulations

Source: Glasgow University survey, fieldwork January 2014.