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Theories of Power, Poverty, and Law: In Commemoration of the Contributions of Peter Bachrach

Empowerment and Poverty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi
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University of Washington
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My subject is the way Peter Bachrach addressed the question of poverty. But given that I was his student and research assistant and that I am a political scientist largely because of him, it is impossible to resist a few words about the experience of being in his classrooms. Peter was an inspiring teacher of politics. The substantive content of his courses was legendary, and he possessed an extraordinary capacity to elicit participation from classes of pre-feminists at our well-bred women's college. I know this cost him. Peter had an extra shirt in his Bryn Mawr office so that he could change out of the one he had sweated through during the considerable exertions of getting us to talk, let alone think.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 85 - 87
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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