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  • According to a widespread assumption, a high level of inequality in a society has a negative effect on political engagement. In egalitarian societies the levels of social capital are higher which supposedly increases individuals’ willingness to participate in political and societal activities. However, there is no established knowledge concerning which aspects of inequality (e.g. economic or educational inequalities or so forth) that result in decreased political participation. In this paper, I aim to present a more nuanced analysis of the relationship between inequality and political participation by studying the effects of two different forms of inequality: income inequality and educational inequality. Multilevel regression analyzes are carried out on data from 42 elections from 25 countries supplied by the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Results show that there are no significant main effects of neither educational nor economic inequality on political engagement. However, interaction shows that the level of inequality significantly affects individuals with low education and low income. Surprisingly, the effects of educational inequality and economic inequality work in opposite directions. While educational inequality has a positive effect on those with low education the effect of economic inequality is negative on those with lowest income. The paper thus challenges the conventional wisdom on how levels of inequalities affect the political behavior of citizens. (xsd:string)
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