Edward banfield culture of poverty

          Banfield is not saying all slum dwellers love their slums, or that the poor love squalor.

        1. Banfield is not saying all slum dwellers love their slums, or that the poor love squalor.
        2. Banfield split the poor into two groups.
        3. Poverty, Banfield argued, arises from a lowerclass culture.
        4. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society is a book by Edward C. Banfield, an American political scientist who visited Montegrano, Italy (Montegrano is the.
        5. Banfield argued that poverty was a product of the poor's lack of future-orientation, and that nothing government could feasibly do would change.

          6. Poverty, Banfield argued, arises from a lowerclass culture....

          Edward C. Banfield

          American political scientist (1916–1999)

          Edward Christie Banfield (November 19, 1916 – September 30, 1999) was an American political scientist, best known as the author of The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), and The Unheavenly City (1970).

          His work was foundational to the advent of the policing tactic of broken windows theory, which was first advocated by his mentee James Q. Wilson in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled "Broken Windows".[1]

          One of the leading scholars of his generation, Banfield was an adviser to three Republican presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan.

          Banfield began his academic career at the University of Chicago, where he was a friend and colleague of Leo Strauss and Milton Friedman.[2] In the latter half of the twentieth century Banfield contributed to shape American conservatism through the publication of sixteen books and numerous articles on urban politics, urban planning and civi