Polarization and its discontents: does rising economic inequality undermine the foundations of liberal societies?

Project Information

POLAR

Grant agreement ID: 833196

DOI

10.3030/833196

Project closed

EC signature date 8 May 2019

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 494 665,00

EU contribution

€ 2 494 665,00

Coordinated by

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Germany

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Publications

Other (10)

Does rising economic inequality strengthen the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage? Evidence from 32 Western countries

Author(s): Claudia Traini, Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 6, 2025
Publisher: Goethe University

Economic inequality and the cross-cutting of social circles: Evidence for a Great Gatsby curve in European marriage and partnership markets

Author(s): Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 5, 2024
Publisher: Goethe University Frankfurt
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/pfv6w

Explaining the “Democratic Malaise” in Unequal Societies: Inequality, External Efficacy and Political Trust

Author(s): Simon Bienstman, Svenja Hense, Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 2, 2022
Publisher: Goethe University Frankfurt, POLAR project

mscologit - Stata ado to fit the multiscale ordered logit model

Author(s): Markus Gangl
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Goethe University

The economic foundations of democratic legitimacy: Exploring the relationship of macroeconomic inequality and trust in democratic institutions in Europe

Author(s): Carlotta Giustozzi, Markus Gangl, Simon Bienstman
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: Goethe University Frankfurt
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/pgk2j

A New Old Macroeconomics of Social Cohesion: Rising Prosperity Still Trumps Rising Inequality, at Least for Many

Author(s): Markus Gangl, Carlotta Giustozzi, Svenja Hense, Simon Bienstman
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, 2022
Publisher: Goethe University Frankfurt, POLAR project

The Paradox of Inequality that isn’t: Rising Economic Inequality Depresses and Polarises Citizens’ Belief in Meritocracy

Author(s): Sven Ehmes, Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 8, 2025
Publisher: Goethe University

Climbing the ladder or falling behind: How social mobility shapes perceptions of meritocracy in the wake of rising inequality

Author(s): Claudia Traini, Sven Ehmes, Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 7, 2025
Publisher: Goethe University

A Generalized Ordered Logit Model to Accommodate Multiple Rating Scales

Author(s): Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, 2022
Publisher: Goethe University Frankfurt, POLAR project

Increasingly polarized? Inequality, prosperity, and perceived socioeconomic conflict in advanced economies (1987–2019)

Author(s): Cristian Márquez Romo, Simon Bienstman, Markus Gangl
Published in: POLAR Working Paper, Issue 9, 2025
Publisher: Goethe University

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Explaining the 'democratic malaise' in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy, and political trust

Author(s): Bienstman, Simon; Hense, Svenja; Gangl, Markus
Published in: European Journal of Political Research, 2023, ISSN 1475-6765
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12611

A Generalized Ordered Logit Model to Accommodate Multiple Rating Scales

Author(s): Gangl, Markus
Published in: Sociological Methods & Research, 2023, ISSN 0049-1241
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00491241231186655

Inequality, prosperity, and perceived socioeconomic conflict in advanced economies (1987–2019)

Author(s): Cristian Márquez Romo, Simon Bienstman, Markus Gangl
Published in: European Sociological Review, 2025, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaf052

Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies

Author(s): Cristian Márquez Romo
Published in: International Political Science Review, 2025, ISSN 0192-5121
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01925121241309929

Does inequality erode political trust?

Author(s): Bienstman, Simon
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 1197317, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1197317

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Social Consequences of Labour Market Marginalisation in Germany

Author(s): Carlotta Giustozzi
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-3-96665-055-7
Publisher: Budrich Academic Press