‘for every percentage point increase in the Gini coefficient of income inequality there was a roughly identical increase in support for far-right parties. Measures introduced by mainstream parties in government, such as tightening eligibility and rendering harsher conditions for welfare benefits, had fuelled ‘distrust and disenchantment’ amid increasing precarity, weaker unions and a declining labour share in economic output’

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https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-the-idea-whose-time-has-come