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and Assam-Meghala yaare calculated from disaggregated data. 34
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offered, again, is that there is a hidden underlying variable, social in-tegration, which tends to reduce the
level of riots and to raise transfer frequency. What makes this interesting is that a variety of arguments
might have predicted that this relationship would have been positive rather than negative. Newspaper
circulation has a significant negative impact on transfer frequency. This is in accordance with Besley and
Burgess‟ (2002) ar-gument that a well developed media tends to make government more responsive to its
citizens. Thus, officials may be less likely to attempt to extract bribes from more informed
Chapter I: Introduction
VII
This thesis explores the relationship between income inequality, corruption, and social
trust. Specifically, I explore two broad questions: (1) Does income inequality increase
corruption? (2) Do inequality and corruption erode social trust? I link normative
inquiries to positive theorizing, drawing on comparative politics, political economy,
political sociology, and social psychology literature regarding these topics as well as
political philosophy literature on social justice. I conduct both large-N statistical
analyses and comparative historical case studies in order to test my hypotheses and
identify causal mechanisms.