Rethinking the Sociological Measurement of Poverty

By David J. Brady. 2003

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Social Policy Responsiveness in Developed Democracies (2006, background): “Effort-related measures have a critical property, as it is social spending relative to GDP that has been found to capture the policy dimension of welfare states that affect patterns of inequality and poverty within democracies (e.g., Kenworthy 1999; Brady 2003; Moller et al. 2003).”
Putting Poverty in Political Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of Adult Poverty across 18 Affluent Democracies (2009, methodology): “Our index combines measures that previous studies have shown to significantly influence poverty (Brady 2003b, 2005; Brady and Kall 2008; Moller et al. 2003).”
Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others (2006, background): “The LIS data are widely considered to be of high quality and the best available for the purposes of studying distribution and redistribution (see Brady 2003; OECD 1995).”
Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium, 2001–06 (2011, background): “Within the literature, there is some controversy on how poverty or income levels can best be measured (Brady 2003).”
Income poverty and material hardship: How strong is the association? (2007, background): “Some also argue that income poverty only indirectly measures aspects of material well-being that are intrinsically important to people (Sen, 1999; Brady, 2003).1 That is, income matters only in that it allows people to attain basic capabilities, such as good health or adequate living conditions.”
Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state: A cross-national analysis of the developed democracies (2008, methodology): “This measure makes use of a composite poverty measure developed by Brady (2003) that taps both the “headcount” of those in poverty (the proportion of the population that falls below 50% of their country’s median income) and the depth of their poverty (the difference between the median income of the…”
To Move or Not to Move? Social Exclusion, Accessibility and Daily Mobility among the Low‐income Population in Santiago, Chile (2008, background): “In simple terms, social exclusion can be defined as the condition of ‘people being prevented from participation in the normal activities of the society in which they live or being incapable of functioning’ (Atkinson, 1998a, p. 27 quoted by Brady, 2003, p. 724).”
Sour Grapes: Relative Deprivation, Adaptive Preferences and the Measurement of Poverty (2006, background): “Another essential aspect is that deprivation must be understood in relation to the ordinary lifestyle in the society to which the individual belongs: that is, deprivation, and also poverty, is relational or relative, and a fundamentally sociological concept (Brady, 2003).”