TY - BOOK AU - Rubin,Olivier TI - Democracy and famine T2 - Routledge research in comparative politics SN - 9780203836712 (e-book : PDF) PY - 2011/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York PB - Routledge KW - Food supply KW - Political aspects KW - Famines KW - Prevention KW - Case studies KW - Democracy KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-195) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Presentation of Sen's theory of democracy and famine -- 3. Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy -- 4. Discussion of Sen's understanding of democracy -- 5. Famines in Bangladesh, Sudan and India -- 6. The Malawi famine of 2002 -- 7. The Niger famine of 2005 -- 8. Democracy and famine : quantitative evidence -- 9. Multiple starvation deaths in India -- 10. Discussion of other macro-level causal approaches -- 11. Counter-productive democratic mechanisms -- 12. Conclusion; Also available in print edition UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203836712 ER -