This article examines the thesis that a reduction in occupational and educational differentials across cross-cutting lines of differentiation, and a more representative government, will have a redistributive effect on ethnic income distribution. This thesis emerges out of the liberal theory of development which implicitly assumes that equalizing opportunity structures across cultural divisions, and increasing political participation, will eventually affect income disparities between groups. The extent to which ethnic income redistribution is a function of educational reform and a broader political participation is a question that has not been systematically examined cross-culturally. In fact, we know very little about the relative progress of ethnic groups in different parts of the world.
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