The Politics of Inequality. Economic Inequality, Political Trust, and Electoral Behaviour. KU Leuven
Does economic inequality influence political trust and voting behaviour of citizens in Western democracies? And how can political trust contribute to more support for income redistribution? This doctoral dissertation aims to provide an answer to these two questions from a comparative and quantitative angle.
The key assumption of this dissertation is that some countries are more, and other countries are less successful in creating an ...