| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11209 |
| DP11209 Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville | |
| Konstantin Sonin; Daron Acemoğlu; Georgy Egorov | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-04-01 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near future, they should have less reason to exclude these other groups from the political process. In this paper, we investigate this hypothesis using a dynamic model of political economy. As well as formalizing this argument, our model demonstrates its limits, elucidating a robust theoretical force making democracy less stable in societies with high social mobility: when the median voter expects to move up (respectively down), she would prefer to give less voice to poorer (respectively richer) social groups. Our theoretical analysis shows that in the presence of social mobility, the political preferences of an individual depend on the potentially conflicting preferences of her future selves, and that the evolution of institutions is determined through the implicit interaction between occupants of the same social niche at different points in time. When social mobility is endogenized, our model identifi es new political economic forces limiting the amount of mobility in society because the middle class will lose out from mobility at the bottom and because a peripheral coalition between the rich and the poor may oppose mobility at the top. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Social mobility Institutions Stability Democracy De tocqueville Dynamics |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11209 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540026 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Konstantin Sonin,Daron Acemoğlu,Georgy Egorov. DP11209 Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville. 2016. |
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