Democracy and famine
By: Olivier Rubin
Series: Routledge research in comparative politics -- 37; Routledge research in comparative politics -- 37.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415598224; 9780203836712
Subjects: Case studies; Famines; Democracy; Political aspects; Prevention; Food supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Presentation of Sen's theory of democracy and famine; title: Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy; title: Discussion of Sen's understanding of democracy; title: Famines in Bangladesh, Sudan and India; title: Malawi famine of 2002; title: The Niger famine of 2005; title: Democracy and famine : quantitative evidence; title: Multiple starvation deaths in India; title: Discussion of other macro-level causal approaches; title: Counter-productive democratic mechanisms.