TY - CHAP AB - Abstract Using original mass public surveys in nine East European, European Union (EU) member countries (2007), I develop a micro-level approach linking individuals’ perceptions of inequality and corruption. Merging an instrumental variables approach with an emerging body of comparative scholarship, I demonstrate that individuals’ perceptions of inequality can be seen to contribute to their perceptions of corruption based on individuals’ normative concerns of the failure of democratic institutions to address issues related to inequality. Thus, for these countries, this region, the EU, as well as other new democracies, we can better understand these potential threats to the development of stable, sustainable democracy. VL - 24 SN - 978-1-78560-993-0, 978-1-78560-994-7/1049-2585 DO - 10.1108/S1049-258520160000024011 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520160000024011 AU - Loveless Matthew PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - How Individuals’ Perceptions of Inequality May Affect Their Perceptions of Corruption: A Challenge to New Democracies T2 - Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting T3 - Research on Economic Inequality PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 247 EP - 270 Y2 - 2024/09/20 ER -