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1 January 2020
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade...
12 February 2019
Published by: Sage Journals
This article analyzes the role of individual redistributive preferences on protest participation. The article focuses on Latin America,...
1 March 2018
Published by: IDS
This paper discusses how disparities and in particular perceptions of inequality may have influenced political participation in Western Balkans over the last years. The arrival of the international crisis in the last quarter of 2008 has had not only economic but also significant political consequences on the region.
18 November 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Drawing on the contributions from the World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, this article...
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
The third 'Conversations about Conflict and Violence' this term will be led by Dr Bruno Martorano who will briefly present findings from the paper he co-authored with Professor Patricia Justino on inequality, distributive beliefs and protests in Latin America.
3 May 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper analyses the role of perceptions of inequality and distributive beliefs in motivating people to engage in protests. The paper focuses on the case of Latin America, where an interesting paradox has been observed: despite considerable reductions in inequality, most countries in Latin America have experienced increases in protests and civil unrest in the last decade. In order to understand
Bruno Martorano and Patricia Justino will analyse group-based inequalities in Mexico and write a paper on the topic of ‘The impact of the recent crisis in Mexico on economic and political inequalities among minorities’ that discusses and advances an argument about patterns and trends.
Bruno Martorano will be conducting research on the topic of ‘Tax Changes and Inequality in Latin America, 1990-2010’
7 January 2016
Published by: Oxford University Press
In this Journal article, we provide evidence on whether a national poverty alleviation programme in Kenya can affect inter-temporal decisions.
1 December 2015
Although Hungary and Iceland suffered a similar fall in GDP, their respective governments decided to follow different strategies of adjustment. Each country cut spending according to different priorities