Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Presentation of Sen’s Theory of Democracy and Famine 3. Conceptualization and Operationalisation of Democracy 4. Discussion of Sen’s Understanding of Democracy 5. Famines in Bangladesh, Sudan and India 6. The Malawi Famine of 2002 7. The Niger Famine of 2005 8. Democracy and Famine – Quantitative Evidence 9. Multiple Starvation Deaths in India 10. Discussion of Other Macro-Level Causal Approaches 11. Counterproductive Democratic Mechanisms 12. Conclusion

About the Author

Olivier Rubin is an assistant Professor at Global Studies, Roskilde University.