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Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico
Judith Teichman
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Description for Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico
Hardback. This book is a comparative study of the different distributional and poverty outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 450.
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels of criminal and political violence. On the road to development, states cannot but grapple with the challenges posed by poverty and wealth distribution.
Social Forces and States explains the reasons behind distinct distributional and poverty outcomes in three countries: South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. South Korea has successfully reduced poverty ... Read more
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels of criminal and political violence. On the road to development, states cannot but grapple with the challenges posed by poverty and wealth distribution.
Social Forces and States explains the reasons behind distinct distributional and poverty outcomes in three countries: South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. South Korea has successfully reduced poverty ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804778251
SKU
V9780804778251
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Ref
99-1
About Judith Teichman
Judith A. Teichman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Most recently, she is co-author of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (2007).
Reviews for Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico
"Three analytic features of the book—at least in combination—distinguish it from these other accounts: a direct focus on social outcomes rather than on social policy; a sustained focus on 'social forces,' or underlying class dynamics rather than on institutions, and particularly democracy; and analysis of how historical sequences condition the causal effect of key variables . . . The strength ... Read more