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be done on the patterns and bases of political competition, which are shaped by
political and socioeconomic history. A host of contextual and structural factors
associated with history, culture, and geopolitics appear to condition ways in which
inequality affects politics and political institutions in East Asia. Further research is
required to disentangle causal sequences from inequality to politics and to discover
underlying causal mechanisms.
East Asian countries display different trajectories of institutional development.
The variation across the region may reflect long-run historical processes and the
geopolitical context of the Cold War. Instead of highly simplifying models, future
work may need to turn to history, structure, and context to adequately comprehend
the impact of inequality on politics, or more generally the relationship between
economy and politics, in the region.
เอกสารประกอบการอภิปรายร่วมระหว่างผู้แทนจากต่างประเทศ