Politics Of The Poor

Author : Indrajit Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316674345

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This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.

Author : Javier Auyero
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822326213

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Poor People's Politics by Javier Auyero Pdf

DIVExamines how Argentina's urban poor use political networks and informal webs of reciprocal help to solve their everyday survival needs/div

Author : Kristina C. Miler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108473507

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Poor Representation by Kristina C. Miler Pdf

The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.

Author : David Brady,Linda Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199914050

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The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty by David Brady,Linda Burton Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide diverse perspectives on the issue.

Author : William Ascher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674790855

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Scheming for the Poor by William Ascher Pdf

Comparison of political aspects of economic policy aiming at income redistribution in Argentina, Chile and Peru - focuses on the policy- making process, comparing the approaches of populist, reformist and radical political leadership; discusses inflation and investment policy, trade policy, balance of payments, tax reform, land reform, wage policy, public expenditure on social services, etc.; considers trade union attitudes and landowners, rural workers, entrepreneurs and employers attitudes, and armed forces political opposition.

Author : Victoria Lawson,Sarah Elwood
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820353128

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Relational Poverty Politics by Victoria Lawson,Sarah Elwood Pdf

This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as material and social relations. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus on the politics of insurgent movements against poverty and inequality in seven countries (Argentina, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, and the United States). The contributors explore theory and practice in alliance politics, resistance movements, the militarized repression of justice movements, global counterpublics, and political theater. These movements reflect the diversity of poverty politics and the relations between bureaucracies and antipoverty movements. They discuss work done by mass and other types of mobilizations across multiple scales; forms of creative and political alliance across axes of difference; expressions and exercises of agency by people named as poor; and the kinds of rights and other claims that are made in different spaces and places. Relational Poverty Politics advocates for poverty knowledge grounded in relational perspectives that highlight the adversarial relationship of poverty to privilege, as well as the possibility for alliances across different groups. It incorporates current research in the field and demonstrates how relational poverty knowledge is best seen as a model for understanding how theory is derivative of action as much as the other way around. The book lays a foundation for realistic change that can directly attack poverty at its roots. Contributors: Antonádia Borges, Dia Da Costa, Sarah Elwood, David Boarder Giles, Jim Glassman, Victoria Lawson, Felipe Magalhães, Jeff Maskovsky, Richa Nagar, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, LaShawnDa Pittman, Frances Fox Piven, Preeti Sampat, Thomas Swerts, and Junjia Ye.

Author : Nandini Gooptu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521443661

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The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India by Nandini Gooptu Pdf

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

Author : Karen Long Jusko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108419888

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Who Speaks for the Poor? by Karen Long Jusko Pdf

Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.

Author : Wataru Kusaka
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 9789814722384

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Moral Politics in the Philippines by Wataru Kusaka Pdf

“The people” famously ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986. After democratization, though, a fault line appeared that split the people into citizens and the masses. The former were members of the middle class who engaged in civic action against the restored elite-dominated democracy, and viewed themselves as moral citizens in contrast with the masses, who were poor, engaged in illicit activities and backed flawed leaders. The masses supported emerging populist counter-elites who promised to combat inequality, and saw themselves as morally upright in contrast to the arrogant and oppressive actions of the wealthy in arrogating resources to themselves. In 2001, the middle class toppled the populist president Joseph Estrada through an extra-constitutional movement that the masses denounced as illegitimate. Fearing a populist uprising, the middle class supported action against informal settlements and street vendors, and violent clashes erupted between state forces and the poor. Although solidarity of the people re-emerged in opposition to the corrupt presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and propelled Benigno Aquino III to victory in 2010, inequality and elite rule continue to bedevil Philippine society. Each group considers the other as a threat to democracy, and the prevailing moral antagonism makes it difficult to overcome structural causes of inequality.

Author : Asef Bayat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231108591

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Street Politics by Asef Bayat Pdf

The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : David Vernon Donnison
Publisher : Martin Robertson
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Pauvres - Grande-Bretagne
ISBN : 085520480X

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The Politics of Poverty by David Vernon Donnison Pdf

Author : Gordon K. Mantler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469608068

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Power to the Poor by Gordon K. Mantler Pdf

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.

Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620970706

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Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Robert W. McChesney Pdf

An updated edition of the “penetrating study” examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky). What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since the publication of this prescient work, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, the concentration of media power and the resultant “hypercommercialization of media” has only intensified. Robert McChesney lays out his vision for what a truly democratic society might look like, offering compelling suggestions for how the media can be reformed as part of a broader program of democratic renewal. Rich Media, Poor Democracy remains as vital and insightful as ever and continues to serve as an important resource for researchers, students, and anyone who has a stake in the transformation of our digital commons. This new edition includes a major new preface by McChesney, where he offers both a history of the transformation in media since the book first appeared; a sweeping account of the organized efforts to reform the media system; and the ongoing threats to our democracy as journalism has continued its sharp decline. “Those who want to know about the relationship of media and democracy must read this book.” —Neil Postman “If Thomas Paine were around, he would have written this book.” —Bill Moyers

Author : Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000099650

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The New Politics Of Poverty by Lawrence M. Mead Pdf

A controversial look at how the failure of most of the poor to work at all has transformed American politics, by a New York University political scientist who is a leading advocate of workfare programs.

Author : Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0465050697

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The New Politics Of Poverty by Lawrence M. Mead Pdf

Thirty years ago, the great national debate was how to help ordinary, workaday Americans achieve the good things in life. Today, we are preoccupied with—and increasingly divided over—how to cope with the problems of poor and dependent Americans, most of whom cannot or will not work at the jobs available. Mead provides overwhelming and disturbing evidence that passive poverty—the failure of most of the poor to work at all—reflects defeatism more than lack of opportunity. In this controversial book, Mead proposes concrete steps to overcome the inertia of the nonworking poor trapped in the welfare system. If the poor return to work, he suggests, American politics would focus once again on the problems of the working Americans.