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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
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The $20,000 Stove: How Fraudulent Rent Increases Undermine New York's Affordable Housing [PDF]
, 2009 New York is city of renters, with 2.1 million rental apartments. The majority of those apartments -- 1.4 million -- are regulated under the laws of Rent Stabilization and Rent Control.
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Building a strong and effective state requires revenue. Yet, in many low‐income countries, citizens do not make formal payments to the state or forego engaging with the state altogether due to vulnerability to opportunistic demands by state agents. We study two randomized interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, designed to
Soeren J. Henn +4 more
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From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur +2 more
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“We've Got to Keep You Where You Are”: Rent Banks as Eviction Prevention
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The last two decades have seen countless local, provincial, and even federal promises to end homelessness in Canada. These efforts to end homelessness have largely failed, and in many communities, there has been an increase in the number of people who are unhoused.
Alison Smith +2 more
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Children's Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Mothers' Eviction Stress
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intimate partner violence has profound impacts on the housing insecurity of mothers and children. Abusers may control household finances, cause property damage or nuisance complaints, or create financial dependence that prevents survivors from fleeing.
Kathryn Showalter +5 more
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Idiosyncratic asset return and wage risk of US households
Economic Inquiry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 636-657, April 2025.Abstract This paper documents the degree of idiosyncratic asset return heterogeneity, serial correlation, and correlation with wage heterogeneity for US households. Novel panel‐data measurements for returns on household assets are proposed. Sizable transitory idiosyncratic return heterogeneity is documented to exist concurrently with permanent ...
Stephen Snudden
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