Democracy and famine/ Olivier Rubin

Cover;
Democracy and Famine;
Copyright;
Contents;
Illustrations;
Acknowledgements;
Abbreviations;

1 Introduction;
Structure of book;

2 Presentation of Sen's theory of democracy and famine;
Outlining Sen's theory of democracy and famine;
Earlier critiques of Sen's democracy theory;
The three different democracy propositions;

3 Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy;
Conceptualizing democracy; The question of governance;
Conclusion;
Operationalization of democracy;
Conclusion;

4 Discussion of Sen's understanding of democracy;
Inferring from Sen's writings.
Inferring from Sen's empirical example, India
Conclusion;

5 Famines in Bangladesh, Sudan and India;
The concept of famine and case-study design;
The 1974 Bangladesh famine;
The Sudanese famine of 1986-89;
Indian famines since independence;
Conclusion;

6 The Malawi famine of 2002;
The Malawian democracy;
The Malawian famine;
Tracing system deficiencies;
Conclusion;

7 The Niger famine of 2005;
Democracy in Niger;
The Niger famine;
Tracing system deficiencies;
Conclusion;

8 Democracy and famine: Quantitative evidence;
Existing cross-country empirical evidence;
Cross-country empirical evidence.
Conclusion

9 Multiple starvation deaths in India;
Starvation deaths in West Bengal;
The political triggers;
Legal assembly dynamics;
The politicized panchayats;
Distrust and stigmatization;
The village-specific factors;
Conclusion;

10 Discussion of other macro-level causal approaches;
De Waal's anti-famine contract;
Dan Banik's freedom;
Neumayer and Plümper's electorate size;

11 Counter-productive democratic mechanisms;
The validity of the three propositions;
The limitations of the focus on democracy and politicization;
Conclusion;

12 Conclusion;
The three propositions --results.
Moving beyond the focus on democracy

Bibliography;
Index.