Access to Power : Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations /

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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 politic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Joan M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Center for International Affairs, Harvard University ; 5205
Temas:
Political participation > Developing countries.
Poor > Developing countries.
Rural-urban migration > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. The Nature and Structure of Urban Poverty in Developing Nations
  • Chapter II. The Rural Exodus
  • Chapter III. Migrants in the City
  • Chapter IV. The Urban Poor as a Political Class
  • Chapter V. Traditional Leaders, Patrons, and Urban Political Machines
  • Chapter VI. Ethnic Politics and the Urban Poor
  • Chapter VII. Special-Interest Associations among the Urban Poor
  • Chapter VIII. Parties and the Urban Poor
  • Chapter IX. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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