RESEARCH IN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Examines the interrelations of politics and society, bringing together articles from an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

List of contents

Introduction - because that's where the money is, Richard E. Ratcliff et al. Part 1: negative consequences to the rise of income inequality, Denny Brown; the rich get increasingly richer - latest data on household wealth during the 1980s, Edward N. Wolff; them that's got shall get - inheritance and achievement in wealth accumulation, Melvin L. Oliver et al. Part 2: savings and the decline of entrepreneurship, Richard E. Ratcliff and Suzanne Maurer; conservative policy-making and growing urban inequality in the 1980s, David M. Grant amd James H. Johnson, Jr; children in poverty - lessons from the economy and public policies, Sheldon Danziger and Glenn Beamer; the war against welfare moves to the States, Nancy Kleniewski; the (un)importance of work for women's poverty for women of colour, Lisa Catanzarite and Vilma Ortiz. Part 3: assets and the welfare state - policies, proposals, politics and research, Michael Sherraden et al; the politics of income redistribution, S.M. Miller and Jacqueline Ortiz.

Summary

Examines the interrelations of politics and society, bringing together articles from an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Moore, Patrick Moore, Melvin Oliver, Thomas Shapiro
• Assisted by: Gwen Moore (Editor), J. Allen Whitt (Editor)
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1995
• EAN: 9781559381178
• ISBN: 978-1-55938-117-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 634 g
• Series: Research in Political Sociolog
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education