Various widely cited theoretical models, such as those developed by Kuznets in the 50s and by Melzer and Richards in the 80s, regard democracy as having in-built mechanisms to address excessive economic inequality. And often, the ability to bring about greater distributional justice is mentioned as an integral part of the “case for democracy”. However, empirically, more democratic governance systems are not necessarily associated with more equal distributions of income or wealth. Why is that
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