Rich Democracies, Poor People How Politics Explain Poverty

Name: Rich Democracies, Poor People How Politics Explain Poverty
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ISBN: 9780195385915

ISBN-10: 0195385918

ISBN-13: 9780195385915

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Brady

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Poverty is not an individual's choice. Nor, as David Brady demonstrates, is it necessary. Building on the latest scholarship in poverty studies, this book points out that among affluent Western societies, there is immense cross-national and historical variation in poverty. Brady seeks to determine what makes poverty so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable problem in others. He illustrates that, among these democracies, the United States is in the worst shape, with three times as much poverty as some West European countries. In the U.S., nearly 20% of the population is poor, as are almost a fourth of U.S. children and elderly. Searching for the causes of this…

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List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Beyond Individualism



Rethinking the Measurement of Poverty



Mythical and Real Patterns in Poverty



The Welfare State and Poverty



The Politics of Poverty



The Poverty of Liberal Economics



Structural Theory and Poverty



Politicizing Poverty


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