Access to Power - Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations

Summary

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-encompassing theory to explain the political behavior of the urban poor, Professor Nelson emphasizes the complex variety in the economic, social, and political circumstances that influence this behavior. Or

Product details

• Authors: Joan M. Nelson, Nelson Joan M.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2017
• EAN: 9780691654669
• ISBN: 978-0-691-65466-9
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Political science & theory, Urban & municipal planning, Politics and government, Social research & statistics, Urban communities