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Although Sidney Dell was by training an economist, and by profession an international civil servant, he was also from experience a highly political person. Born into a Jewish family recently arrived in England from Eastern Europe, growing up under the shadow of fascism in the London of the 1930s; studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Queen’s College, Oxford, on the eve of war; and serving as a navigator in the Royal Navy for the bulk of that conflict, he could hardly have been otherwise. Always a man whose sympathies lay on the left, and always very much his own man, his commitment to democracy and pluralist values was always linked to a concern for effective public policies to promote social equality and to overcome poverty and injustice.
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© 1995 Gerry Helleiner, Shahen Abrahamian, Edmar Bacha, Roger Lawrence and Pedro Malan
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Whitehead, L. (1995). A Comparative Perspective on Democratization: Theory and Experience in the Post-Cold War World. In: Helleiner, G., Abrahamian, S., Bacha, E., Lawrence, R., Malan, P. (eds) Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13658-2_11
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