A poverty of imagination: Blaming the poor for inequality

Political Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-343

  Dorey, Peter ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inequality; Injustice; Laziness; Poverty; Redistribution; Sympathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955971663     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2010.02095.x     Document Type: Article

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