TY - JOUR TT - Inequality of Income Distribution and Poverty in Countries Governed by Parliamentary and Presidential Systems AU - Bağce, H. Emre PY - 2017 DA - January DO - 10.29224/insanveinsan.289189 JF - İnsan ve İnsan JO - Journal of İnsan ve İnsan PB - Okur Yazar Derneği WT - DergiPark SN - 2148-7537 SP - 5 EP - 39 VL - 4 IS - 11 KW - Parlamenter sistem KW - Başkanlık sistemi KW - Yarı başkanlık sistemi KW - Gelir dağılımı eşitsizliği KW - Gini endeksi KW - Yoksulluk N2 - In this article, parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential governments areexamined in terms of inequality of income distribution and poverty. In this way, it is aimedthat hypothetical discussions about the advantages or disadvantages of political systems canbe overcome and more refined knowledge about the nature of political systems can be reachedthrough the concrete results of the analyses. In the first part of the study, it is determined andclassified which countries in the world are governed by parliamentary system and whichare governed by presidential and semi-presidential systems. In the second part, inequality ofincome distribution, measured by Gini Index (World Bank estimate) in more than one hundredand fifty countries of the world are reviewed and compared by parliamentary, presidentialand semi-presidential systems. And in the third part, the poverty levels of one hundred andone countries in Multidimensional Poverty Index, which is developed by Oxford Poverty andHuman Development Initiative, are assessed in terms of their affiliation to the competingpolitical systems. According to the results of the study, it is found that inequality of incomedistribution is less in the countries governed by the parliamentary system, and in a similar way,it is more favorable in terms of poverty. 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