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DESCRIPTION:[b]Abstract [/b] [nl]\nWhy did historical anti-poverty program
 s in Britain\, Denmark and France differed so dramatically in their goals
 \, beneficiaries and agents for solving poverty? Different cultural views
  of poverty contributed to how policymakers envisioned anti-poverty refor
 ms. Danish elites articulated social investments in peasants as necessary
  to economic growth\, political stability and societal strength. Britain 
 elites viewed the lower classes as a challenge to these goals. French per
 ceived the poor as an opportunity for Christian charity.  [nl] [nl]\n\nFi
 ction writers are overlooked political actors in welfare reforms of the l
 ong nineteenth century. At the level of individual agency\, writers are i
 mportant activists in struggles over social policy reforms. They use thei
 r narratives to ascribe meaning to social problems\; they help create ide
 ologies for their social movements\; they mobilize support among broader 
 publics with their heart-wrenching novels\; and they help to put neglecte
 d issues on the popular agenda. [nl] [nl]\n\nWriters may well be even mor
 e important at the structure level by collectively creating a set of endu
 ring cultural tropes that extend across issue areas and time. I refer to 
 these enduring tropes as a country’s “cultural constraint\,” or the symbo
 ls and narratives that appear in the national-level aggregation of litera
 ture. Fiction writers inherit symbols and narratives from their literary 
 ancestors\, rework these to address the political problems of their times
 \, and pass these on to future generations. In this way\, narratives beco
 me a cultural anchoring for deliberations over social issues. To assess c
 ross-national variations in cultural depictions of poverty\, my coauthors
  and I use historical case studies and quantitative textual analyses of 5
 62 British\, 521 Danish and 498 French fictional works from 1700 to 1920.
  [nl] [nl]\n\nWhile fiction writers (and essayists) today are less influe
 ntial in shaping perceptions of social problems than they were in the lon
 g nineteenth century (before the rise of non-print media)\, cultural fram
 es continue to anchor policy deliberations over poverty and other social 
 issues. \n [nl] [nl]\n[b]About Cathie Jo Martin [/b] [nl]\nCathie Jo Mart
 in is professor of Political Science at Boston University and associated 
 researcher at the Danish Center for Welfare Studies\, University of South
 ern Denmark. Her book\, Education for All? (Cambridge University Press 20
 23)\, investigates how British and Danish authors contribute to the deep 
 cultural roots of education reform. [nl] [nl]\nHer previous book with Dua
 ne Swank\, The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cambridge 20
 12) received the APSA Politics and History book award. In 2013-2014\, she
  co-chaired with Jane Mansbridge an APSA presidential task force on polit
 ical negotiation\, which produced Negotiating Agreement in Politics (Broo
 kings 2015). Martin is also author of Stuck in Neutral: Business and the 
 Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (Princeton 2000)\, Shifting t
 he Burden: the Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation (Chicago 1991)
 \, and articles in the American Political Science Review\, World Politics
 \, British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\,
  European Journal of Sociology and Socio-Economic Review among others. [n
 l] [nl] \nMartin has received fellowships and grants from the Radcliffe I
 nstitute for Advanced Study\, Russell Sage Foundation\, National Endowmen
 t for the Humanities\, German Marshall Fund\, Robert Wood Johnson Foundat
 ion\, Danish Social Science Research Council\, Boston University Hariri I
 nstitute for Computing\, BU Humanities Foundation and National Science Fo
 undation. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
 nology in 1987 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern 
 Denmark in October 2019. [nl] [nl]
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