Rich Democracies, Poor People
How Politics Explain Poverty
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Social Services & Welfare, Economic Conditions, Social Science
| Author: | David Brady | ISBN: | 9780199888924 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | August 13, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Brady |
| ISBN: | 9780199888924 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | August 13, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
