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

A controversial look at how the failure of most of the poor to work at all has transformed American politics, by a New York University political scientist who i

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