Democracy and Famine
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Democracy and Famine

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Democracy and Famine

About this book

Famine is the most extreme manifestation of the existence of poverty, inequality and political apathy. Whereas poverty, hunger and diseases are not easily eradicated in the world today, famines are often perceived to be relatively simple to avert. However, the political incentives to prevent famines are not always present.

Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen, whose influential hypothesis that democratic institutions together with a free press provide effective protection from famine, Democracy and Famine is a study combining qualitative and quantitative evidence, analysing the effect of democracy on famine prevention. The book's overall framework moves from placing political systems at the heart of famine protection to look at the political processes involved.

Using a case study based approach drawing on famines from India, Malawi and Niger; Democracy and Famine will be of interest to scholars and students of democracy, comparative politics and international relations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Presentation of Sen’s theory of democracy and famine
  10. 3 Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy
  11. 4 Discussion of Sen’s understanding of democracy
  12. 5 Famines in Bangladesh, Sudan and India
  13. 6 The Malawi famine of 2002
  14. 7 The Niger famine of 2005
  15. 8 Democracy and famine: quantitative evidence
  16. 9 Multiple starvation deaths in India
  17. 10 Discussion of other macro-level causal approaches
  18. 11 Counter-productive democratic mechanisms
  19. 12 Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index