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This book provides a clear, candid picture of urban political leaders' political and social backgrounds, their perceptions of problems, their political values, and their past and current experience in mobilizing support for their policies in Western democracies.

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Poor America describes the sharp contrast in the extent of poverty between the United States and six Western European countries. Samuel J. Eldersveld seeks to discover why America struggles more with this social issue by exploring the history of the countries and various theories.

Samuel J. Eldersveld and Mingming Shen, the authors of this important 'two-wave' study, illuminate a unique and richly contoured view of Chinese attitudes about political and economic reform. They base their findings on the responses of a panel of over 800 mass respondents, approximately 1, 300 interviews with villagers, and 250 interviews with cadres. The authors provide extensive analysis of their data and find that the level of popular supp...

Poor America describes the sharp contrast in the extent of poverty between the United States and six Western European countries. While 36 million Americans live below the poverty line, a much smaller percent of Western Europeans struggle with the same problem. Samuel J. Eldersveld seeks to discover why this variance exists by exploring various theories. To explain the larger percentage of American poor, he tackles the history of poverty in eac...

Reflections on the nature of political leadership