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Stein Ringen
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 34
Citations - 1449
Stein Ringen is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Democracy & Politics. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1401 citations.
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Direct and Indirect Measures of Poverty
TL;DR: Poverty can be defined and measured either directly or indirectly (in terms of income) as mentioned in this paper, and the relative deprivation concept of poverty is a direct concept; poverty is understood as visible poverty, that is, a low standard of consumption.
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The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a framework for the analysis of public policy within the theory of rational action and analyzes this under six headings: legitimacy, governability, poverty, equality, efficiency and activity.
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Households, standard of living, and inequality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed methods of income analysis which incorporate the household factor in relative interpretations of income levels, and applied these methods to Norwegian data for the period from 1970 to 1986 as to trends in the average standard of living and standard-of-living inequality, and the redistributive impact of transfer and tax policies.