Determinants of relative poverty in advanced capitalist democracies

American Sociological Review

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-51

  Moller, Stephanie ^a   Huber, Evelyne ^a   Stephens, John D ^a   Bradley, David ^a   Nielsen, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 0037304795     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088901     Document Type: Article

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