This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with t

The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disci

The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of polit