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  • Studies in political inequality quite often have action, i.e., forms of participation, as a dependent variable. This analysis starts earlier by looking to socially induced inequality in the precondition of political action, namely, voting. Results show that voter knowledge, including the sincere and accurate translation of preferences into voter choice, is unequally distributed across social groups. This finding is a challenge to democracy for two reasons. First, political inequality violates the core norm of democracy, political equality. Second, results suggest that the norm of political equality cannot be guaranteed by securing formal equality. This situation raises the question of whether political inequality in voter knowledge in socially highly differentiated societies is inevitable. Results show that the effect of social inequality on political inequality varies not randomly but systematically with the degree of income inequality in society at large. Income inequality is accessible to political intervention. Welfare state measures are able to reduce income inequality. In this sense, democracy itself can create the conditions demanded for democracy if it wishes to comply with its central norm of political equality. (xsd:string)
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  • In Democracy and Crisis, edited by Merkel, Wolfgang and Kneip, Sascha, 49-69, Springer, 2018 (xsd:string)
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