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Rich Democracies, Poor People
David Brady
其他書名
How Politics Explain Poverty
出版Oxford University Press, 2009-08-13
主題Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic DisparityPolitical Science / Political Economy
ISBN01998889229780199888924
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tsrNBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.