Democracy and famine /

Main Author: Rubin, Olivier
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge research in comparative politics ; 37
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Presentation of Sen's theory of democracy and famine
  • Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy
  • Discussion of Sen's understanding of democracy
  • Famines in Bangladesh, Sudan and India
  • Malawi famine of 2002
  • The Niger famine of 2005
  • Democracy and famine : quantitative evidence
  • Multiple starvation deaths in India
  • Discussion of other macro-level causal approaches
  • Counter-productive democratic mechanisms.