Economic inequality might influence subjective well-being through psychological processes
such as status competition and social distance. However, evidence for this claim is mixed. In …

In this review, we focus on political inequality in rich democracies. In the two main sections,
we look at participation and representation, respectively. The former discusses whether …

We illustrate the design and use of open-ended survey questions to elicit people's first-order
concerns on policies. Closed-ended questions are the backbone of surveys but may prime …

Inequality is on the rise: gains have been concentrated with a small elite, while most have
seen their fortunes stagnate or fall. Despite what scholars and journalists consider a …

We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict
renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her …

The study investigates the nexus between energy poverty and income inequality from
multiple perspectives by drawing on a rich set of global data and applying a novel set of …

Ecological breakdown and economic inequality are among the largest contemporary global
challenges, and the issues are thoroughly entangled–as they have been throughout the …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

Highlights•Laypeople's beliefs about their country's income and wealth distributions are
typically inaccurate.•These misperceptions are caused in part by overreliance on cues from …

This article investigates the determinants of the income inequality for a global sample
including 87 economies between 2002 and 2014. Notably, the study examines the impacts …