<sc>merilee serrill grindle</sc>. <italic>Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy</italic>. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1977. Pp. xix, 220. $12.50

The last few years have seen an increased interest in the casual theories surrounding houselessness. To date, no study has explicitly looked at the connection between public policy, social stigma, and the unhoused in Los Angeles County: three components of criminalization. In the first section, the concept of the (sub)culture of poverty is explored and lay bare. Next, a purview of socio-political theory regarding the inculcation of social norms onto the unhoused subaltern: then, biological determined racialism and classism are discredited. Last, a case study of the municipality of Torrance shows the prevalence of this inculcation of social stigma and the inaction in public policy. These ideological theories of biologically and culturally determined houselessness, devoid of any reality, inculcate the community, stymie public policy solutions, and exacerbate the unhouseds’ material conditions.

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Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa. By Donald Rothchild and Robert L. CurryJr., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 357, figs. £11.00.

Africa ◽

10.2307/1159042 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 235-236

Author(s):

Siyanga Malumo

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Los Angeles ◽

University Of California

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merilee serrill grindle. Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1977. Pp. xix, 220. $12.50

Bhuwan Lal Joshi and Leo E. Rose: Democratic innovationsin Nepal: a case study of political acculturation. xvi, 551 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. $10.75. (English agents: Cambridge University Press. 86s.)

Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy. By Merilee Serrill Grindle. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xviii + 220. $12.50.)

Reviews: BHUWAN L. JOSHI and LEO E. ROSE. Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political Acculturation. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., University of California Press, 1966. Pp. 55I. Price $ 10.75

Robert Kelley. Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1989. Pp. xxi, 395. $35.00

linda alexander rodríguez. The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830–1940. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xv, 281. $32.50

The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Case Study. By Hong Yung Lee. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. 1978. 369 pp. $15.00.] - China: The Impact of the Cultural Revolution. Edited by Bill Brugger. [New York: Barness and Noble. 1978. 300 pp. £9·95.]

Landed versus Landless: Stigma & Astigmatism towards the Subaltern in South Bay Suburbia in Los Angeles County

Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa. By Donald Rothchild and Robert L. CurryJr., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 357, figs. £11.00.

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