| Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations Subjects: Underdeveloped areas -- Political participation; Underdeveloped areas -- Politics and government; Underdeveloped areas -- Rural-urban migration; Poor; Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-encompassing theory to explain the political behavior of the urban poor, Professor Nelson emphasizes the complex variety in the economic, social, and political circumstances that influence this behavior. |