Escaping the energy poverty trap : when and how governments power the lives of the poor
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University of Strathclyde
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 91185074
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISBN
- 9780262038799
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The book Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap presents the first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty in seven chapters (328 pages). It develops a new political-economic theory that introduces government interest, institutional capacity, and local accountability as key determinants of household electrification and access to clean cooking fuels in the Global South. We test our argument in multiple country contexts combining within-country variation from Indian states with cross-country variation from East Asia (Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Vietnam), Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa), and Latin America (Brazil, Chile). The book resulted from several years of field work.
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- Non-English
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