Income Inequality, Regime Repressiveness, and Political Violence

It has been argued that the main cause of political violence has been income inequality since ancient times. While some studies have indicated no relationship between income inequality and political violence, some have argued that the level of economic development is a stronger determinant of political violence. While the arguments of relative deprivation argue that there is a direct relationship between the various forms of poverty, evoked dissatisfaction and collective political violence, the resource mobilization movement; rejected the assumption of a direct relationship between dissatisfaction and political violence. In the researches that try to determine the relation between regime repression and political violence; it was argued that political violence emerged under the structure of a moderately oppressive regime. In short, this study reports a data analysis of the relevant nation with a discussion of the relative deprivation of resource mobilization, examining the effects of income disparity and regime repression on the level of political violence