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THE MISSING PEOPLE OF STATE‐SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: Lived Experiences of Non‐Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale, state‐subsidized housing programmes have experienced a renaissance in Africa, Asia and Latin America, but provoke justified concerns about whether they miss their target groups. Unaffordability, lack of choice, peripheral locations and under‐serviced sites are common problems.
Raffael Beier
wiley   +1 more source

THE ILLUSION OF FLEXIBILITY: Housing Aspirations Across Generations in Brazil's Formal Market

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract With this study we join the conversation on housing aspirations from a Brazilian perspective, which is marked by coexisting formal and informal markets, investigating how market‐driven narratives and socioeconomic factors shape these aspirations across generations in urban areas.
Rafael Kalinoski, Mario Prokopiuk
wiley   +1 more source

Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 1993
Under anarchy, uncoordinated competitive theft by “roving bandits” destroys the incentive to invest and produce, leaving little for either the population or the bandits. Both can be better off if a bandit sets himself up as a dictator—a “stationary bandit” who monopolizes and rationalizes theft in the form of taxes.
M. Olson
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine

European Journal of Social Theory, 2023
This essay is a reflection on the Ukraine war grounded in moral motives to empathetically support an attacked victim (whether at the individual or national level).
H. Kögler
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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