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Title:

Poverty, inequality, and democracy / edited by Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

viii, 185 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Democracy--Economic aspects.
Equality.

Other Authors:

Fukuyama, Francis.
Diamond, Larry Jay.
Plattner, Marc F., 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- What are the issues? -- Dealing with inequality / Francis Fukuyama -- Does electoral democracy boost economic equality? / Nancy Bermeo -- Why democracies fail / Ethan B. Kapstein and Nathan Converse -- Latin America: democracy with development / Alejandro Toledo -- The Latin American experience / Francis Fukuyama -- Aiding Latin America's poor / Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni -- Postcommunist welfare states / Mitchell A. Orenstein -- East-Central Europe's quandary / Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits -- How regions differ / Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman -- Growth without prosperity in Africa / Peter Lewis -- South African disparities / Charles Simkins -- Growth and hunger in India / Dan Banik -- Mixed governance and welfare in South Korea / Taekyoon Kim, Huck-Ju Kwon, Jooha Lee, and Ilcheong Yi.

Series:

A journal of democracy book

ISBN:

1421405709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781421405704 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)756045322

LCCN:

2011040333

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)