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Replication Data and Online Appendix to 'Forms of Welfare Capitalism and Education-based Participatory Inequality'

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Title Replication Data and Online Appendix to 'Forms of Welfare Capitalism and Education-based Participatory Inequality'
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/24456
 
Creator Schneider, Carsten Q.
Makszin, Kristin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Scholars studying democracy are just beginning to investigate the specifically political consequences of rising socio-economic inequalities. This paper analyzes whether the degree of political inequality between social groups is shaped by features of the welfare capitalist system. Specifically, we hypothesize that more labor protection and social support decrease participatory inequality via more evenly distributed resources and engagement between high and low educated citizens. Our regression analyses combining micro- and macro-level data from 37 capitalist democracies over the past 20 years provides evidence that some protective and supportive elements of welfare capitalism reduce education-based participatory inequality. Our fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis identifies three functionally equivalent types of welfare capitalism that all produce low participatory inequality via increased protection, support, or both. Finally, we empirically demonstrate that the mechanisms behind this link are, indeed, a more equal distribution of resources and engagement across low and high educated citizens.
 
Subject democracy; comparative politics; capitalism, democratic; QCA; labor market institutions; inequality
 
Date 2014