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Wilson Wins ARNOVA Book AwardJohn Wilson has been given the ARNOVA Best Book Award for 2009 for his book Volunteers: A Social Profile published by Indiana University Press. The ceremony took place at the annual conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. His co-author on the book was Marc Musick of the University of Texas-Austin. Third edition of Bonilla-Silva's
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Dave Brady's book "Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty" is the Times of London Higher Education "Book of the Week." David Brady sets out to investigate questions about poverty. He introduces his study with the observation that a large percentage of poverty literature is based on US data, even though America is an "outlier" with "anaemic Leftist politics and an unusually meagre welfare state". This, he believes, may explain why researchers examining poverty in the advanced economies have tended to ask the wrong questions and reach the wrong conclusions. ...more |
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