[fvc-wat-disc] Questions

[Matt Foster]

video - http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
  info on book the spirit level  - 
http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/the-spirit-level
author
kate.pickett at york.ac.uk <mailto:kate.pickett at york.ac.uk>
phone 01904 32(1377)
notes from Wikipedia etc.
*Recent News*: Shortlisted with her co-author, Wilkinson RG, for 
"Research Project of the Year" in the Times Higher Education Awards 2009 
for her research and publication: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal 
Societies Almost Always Do Better.
He is best known for his book with Kate Pickett The Spirit Level, first 
published in 2009, which claims that societies with more equal 
distribution of incomes have better health, fewer social problems such 
as violence, drug abuse, teenage births, mental illness, obesity, and 
others, and are more cohesive than ones in which the gap between the 
rich and poor is greater.

Hi Anita,
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson wrote a great book on why countries 
with greater equality do better. I wrote to Wilkinson saying that he 
needed a graph that shows equality/inequality as it relates to the 
electoral system.
He sent me a paper by someone in Brazil who had done such a comparison 
but I cant find it. If you get the book from the library you can pretty 
much do it yourself as it is so obvious except for Portugal which is the 
odd ball.
Why don't you try writing or phoning Ms Pickett? I cannot find the 
address for Wilkinson anywhere.
If you want to contact David Orchard try here <davidorchard at sasktel.net> 
or David Orchard <ccaftnat at sasktel.net>
or call him at (306) 997-4981 (Bordon Saskatchewan)
Ed Broadbent is also very knowledgeable on this topic as I recall him 
speaking on it.
Cheers
Matt Foster - stop stop stop "Society Thrives On Participation" see - 
http://stopstopstop.org

On 27/10/2012 3:33 PM, Anita wrote:
> I have two questions I'm wondering if anyone can answer.
> Is there a researched connection between income inequality and voting 
> systems?  The Lipjhart study made a weak connection suggesting less 
> inequality in PR countries, but that was before much of Europe 
> collapsed in the recession. If their level of income inequality is 
> worse now, that would defeat the case.
> Is there a researched connection between trade deals and voting 
> systems? I read a very alarming book by David Orchard called the Fight 
> for Canada about the free trade agreement. I'm always hearing how 
> Canada gives away control of this and that (pretty much sells the 
> country to whomever) whereas other countries take steps to protect 
> their industries and resources when it benefits their country to do 
> so. I wonder if there is any connection between these types of 
> decisions and voting systems.
> Anita
>
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