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The effects of attitudes about economic inequality on support for markets and democracy in Latin America, 1995-2010
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The effects of attitudes about economic inequality on support for markets and democracy in Latin America, 1995-2010
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Cramer
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Brian D.
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1978-
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Robert R
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Lau
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Rick R
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Jorge
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Chalmers
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Douglas A
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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The potential effects of economic inequality on markets and democracy have received significant attention in recent years. Less attention, however, has been devoted to empirically examining the attitudinal aspects of these relationships. In this dissertation, I examine the effects of attitudes about inequality on attitudes about government regulation of the economy, illiberal democracy, and civic engagement. I examine these effects with nine multilevel data sets spanning 1995-2010 and in the Latin America context. The statistical findings provide weak empirical support for the hypothesis that greater dissatisfaction with inequality is associated with greater support for a more government-regulated economy. They also suggest that dissatisfaction with inequality is not systematically related to support for illiberal democracy. Furthermore, the findings provide weak empirical evidence that dissatisfaction with inequality is systematically related to civic engagement. Moreover, the effects of dissatisfaction with inequality on support for these three individual-level outcomes do not appear to be systematically conditioned by various individual- and country-level factors. Therefore, the results suggest that attitudes about economic inequality are not consistently related to various attitudes about markets and democracy in the recent Latin American context. The findings help adjudicate between competing claims about the effects of economic inequality on markets and democracy, and they also shed light on the potential durability of markets and democracy in 21st century Latin America in the wake of widespread public dissatisfaction with economic inequality.
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Political Science
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v, 296 p. : ill.
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by Brain D. Cramer
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Democratization--Latin America--21st century
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Income distribution--Latin America--21st century
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Latin America--Economic condition--1982-
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Latin America--Politics and government--21st century
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ETD doctoral
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Brian
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2012-12-10 22:36:41
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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