From public housing to the social market : rental policy strategies in comparative perspective / / Jim Kemeny |
Autore | Kemeny Jim |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.33/8 |
Soggetto topico |
Rental housing
Rental housing - Government policy |
ISBN |
1-134-88889-9
1-134-88890-2 1-282-77757-2 9786612777578 0-203-03380-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Profit markets and social markets; Markets as social institutions; German ordo-liberalism and the social market; Profit and social market rental strategies; On dominant views and research paradigms; The Romeo error in comparative renting; The anglo-saxon bias in comparative rental research; Ethnocentrism and implicit theory; On defining terms; Policy constructivism and the concept of maturation; From structural determinism to policy constructivism; The maturation process
Cost renting, maturation and policy strategyReconceptualising rental systems; Dualist and unitary systems compared; Power, ideology and rental market policy structuring; Three worlds of capitalism and two worlds of renting?; Power structures and rental markets; Introduction; Case studies in the maturation process; Choice of case studies; Sweden: Gavlegrdarna; Australia: the South Australian Housing Trust; Maturation and asset stripping: discounted sales; Command policies; New Zealand; Australia; Britain; Conclusions; Market policies; Sweden; The Netherlands; Germany; Switzerland; Introduction Unitary rental markets: towards a systematisationThe dynamics of unitary rental markets; Unitary rental market dynamics and the Romeo error; Rental policy strategies as implicit agendas; The anglo-saxon hegemony and Eastern Europe; From command economy to the social market; The case against dualism; Reconstructing public renting; The role of profit renting; Subsidies; Housing allowances; Housing and other areas of social policy; Wider issues: housing and the welfare state; Housing and the welfare state; Summary and conclusions; Models of rental systems; Conclusions; Glossary of concepts NotesReferences; Index |
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Housing and social theory / / Jim Kemeny |
Autore | Kemeny Jim |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.5 |
Soggetto topico |
Housing - Sociological aspects
Social structure |
ISBN |
1-134-92438-0
1-138-97201-0 1-134-92439-9 1-280-32274-8 0-203-41356-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Housing and social theory; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Housing and metatheory; 1. The disciplinary basis of housing studies; Introduction; On the nature of disciplines; The case of urban studies; The case of social administration; Substantive focuses: housing, home, and residence; Interdisciplinism, housing and social theory; Empiricism and the problem of epistemic drift; Conclusions; 2. The epistemological grounds of housing studies; Introduction; Basic concepts; Methodological issues; The rhetoric of concept-formation
What is a housing problem?Conclusions; Part II: Bringing theory back in; 3. Returning to the state in housing research; Introduction; The return to the state debate in political science; The state in housing research; Theorising the state in housing research; Conclusions; 4. A critique of unilinealism in comparative housing research; Introduction; Unilinearity and convergence in social theory; The convergence thesis in comparative housing research; Conclusions; 5. Housing and comparative welfare research; Introduction; Theories of change in welfare research Toward a theorised conception of 'welfare'Housing and welfare in comparative perspective; Conclusions; Part III: Toward a divergence thesis in comparative housing and research; 6. Ideology and divergent social structures; Introduction; Macrosocial aspects; Microsocial aspects; Conclusions; 7. Divergent social structures and residence; Introduction; Latent divergence in The Myth of Home Ownership; Welfare states and social structures; Collective and private modes of industrialism; Conclusions; 8. The political construction of collective residence: the case of Sweden; Introduction The social construction of hegemonyThe social construction of political dominance: 'residence policy'; The people's home and social planning; Conclusions; Part IV: Toward a theoretically anchored sociology of housing; 9. Residence and social structure; Introduction; The salience of housing in social structure: the concept of embeddedness; Residence as a socio-spatial focus; Residence and the dynamics of social change; Toward a sociology of residence; Conclusions; 10. Conclusions; Notes; References; Index |
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