David Brady

Rich Democracies, Poor People (eBook, ePUB)

How Politics Explain Poverty

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Produktbeschreibung

Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies, Poor People, Brady investigates why poverty is so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable problem in others. Drawing on over thirty years of data from eighteen countries, Brady argues that cross-national and historical variations in poverty are principally driven by differences in the generosity of the welfare state. An explicit challenge to mainstream views of poverty as an inescapable outcome of individual failings or a society's labor markets and demography, this book offers institutionalized power relations theory as an alternative explanation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199888924
• Artikelnr.: 42371813

Autorenporträt

David Brady is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Duke University and is a widely-published author of articles on poverty, inequality, and globalization.

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Beyond Individualism
2.: Rethinking the Measurement of Poverty
3.: Mythical and Real Patterns in Poverty
4.: The Welfare State and Poverty
5.: The Politics of Poverty
6.: The Poverty of Liberal Economics
7.: Structural Theory and Poverty
8.: Politicizing Poverty
Appendix
Acknowledgements
References