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John Duncan Powell
Researcher at Tufts University
Publications - 2
Citations - 296
John Duncan Powell is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Scarcity & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 292 citations.
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Peasant society and clientelist politics.
TL;DR: The basic social relations of peasant life are directly related to an environment characterized by extreme scarcity, and the outlook this situation engenders in the peasant is the "Image of the Limited Good" as discussed by the authors.
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Venezuelan Agrarian Problems in Comparative Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the relationship between an historically deprived class in Venezuelan society and the modernizing political elites which, after a thirty-year struggle, consolidated their claim to govern.