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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. The power of coalitions for egalitarianism, Leftist political groups and parties, and the social policies they are able to institutionalize shape the amount of poverty in society. Where poverty is low, equality has been institutiona

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an ambitious, impressively well-argued and long-overdue contribution to the poverty debate. * Fiona Taylor, The Times Higher Education Supplement *

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APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES

Rich Democracies Poor People

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 8/20/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780195385915
      978-0195385915
      ISBN-10 0195385918
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      Poverty and precarity

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      Book Synopsis
      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. The power of coalitions for egalitarianism, Leftist political groups and parties, and the social policies they are able to institutionalize shape the amount of poverty in society. Where poverty is low, equality has been institutiona

      Trade Review
      an ambitious, impressively well-argued and long-overdue contribution to the poverty debate. * Fiona Taylor, The Times Higher Education Supplement *

      Table of Contents
      APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES

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