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The financialization of housing and its political consequences

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Institutional investors in residential real estate have become targets of political backlash against unaffordable housing. We argue that this backlash is not only about economic issues such as rising rents; it reflects a fundamental rejection of “financialized capitalism” that turns housing from a basic need into a speculative asset.
Rafaela Dancygier, Andreas Wiedemann
wiley   +1 more source

Who wins when? Election timing and descriptive representation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine how the timing of local elections affects the success of minority candidates, who remain woefully underrepresented in public office. We build on research showing that concurrent elections narrow racial gaps in voter turnout and leverage changes in the timing of local elections in California.
Zoltan L. Hajnal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
wiley   +1 more source

Referendumul în România – între utilitate şi utilizare

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2011
The referendum in Romania has become an increasingly used method for consulting the citizens both in legislative issues, but also in the administrative ones. However, not all the results of a plebiscite can be imposed in the parliamentary forum.
Antonio Glodeanu
doaj  

Empirical realism and democratic equality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
wiley   +1 more source

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