State-led gentrification in previously ‘un-gentrifiable’ areas: Examples from Vancouver/Canada and Frankfurt/Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Mösgen ◽  
Marit Rosol ◽  
Sebastian Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Housing Complex

Through an analysis of two international cases from Canada and Germany, this paper highlights the role of the state in governing gentrification and displacement in areas previously thought to be unattractive for profit-seeking capital, that is, ‘un-gentrifiable’. With this, we seek to contribute to the debate on how the role of the local state has changed from securing affordable housing for low-income households into becoming an essential player involved in real estate speculation. Taking Little Mountain in Vancouver as the first example, we examine the privatization and demolition of the public housing complex and thus the withdrawal of the state. Our second example, Ostend in Frankfurt, investigates the restructuring of a working-class neighbourhood through active state-led interventions including massive public investment. We analyse the two empirical examples along five dimensions: causal drivers and mechanisms that have led to the changing role of the state in governing urban transformations; policy instruments used by state agencies to encourage gentrification; strategies to legitimize state-led gentrification; outcomes in terms of direct and exclusionary displacement; and the forms of contestation and protest. We maintain that both cases, although presenting a stark contrast, follow the same rule, namely state-led gentrification.

scholarly journals Diagnosing the role of the state for local collective action: Types of action situations and policy instruments

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas ◽  
Andreas Thiel ◽  
Laurence Amblard ◽  
Dimitrios Zikos ◽  
Ester Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State

scholarly journals From right to good, and to asset: The state-led financialisation of the social rented housing in Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442094151
Author(s):  
Emanuele Belotti ◽  
Sonia Arbaci
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Investment Fund ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Asset Class

Rental housing has been regarded as the new ‘frontier for financialisation’ since the 2007 financial crisis. But research examining financialisation of de-commodified rental housing is limited and is primarily focused on stock acquisitions by financial investors and the enabling role of either national or local governments. This critically overlooks the emergence of the financialised production of social rented housing, the interplay between levels of government (particularly with the regional level), and the leading role of the state in these processes. By combining a political sociology approach to policy instruments with a housing system studies perspective, the paper investigates how Italy, through the interplay between national, regional (Lombardy) and local (Milan) governments, led the financialisation of its social rented housing production. Through analyses of six decades of financial-legislative changes in the housing system regarding production/provision, finance and land supply, it identifies a three-stage journey towards financialisation: (1) the rise and fall of publicly-owned rental social housing (1950s to 1990s); (2) the regionalisation and marketisation of the sector up to the late 2000s; and (3) the upward transfer from the first local-scale experiment with the real estate mutual investment fund in Milan to the creation of a national-scale System of Funds for the production of social rented housing. The study shows that the re-commodification of housing and land initiated in the 1980s were intertwined and a conditio-sine-qua-non for financialisation; that the state played a crafting—rather than solely enabling—role in this process; and that trans-scalar legislative–financial innovations transformed social rented housing into a liquid asset class.

scholarly journals Modern Democracy-Welfare State and Public Goods. A current consequence for Greece.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMMANOUIL MAVROZACHARAKIS
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
System P ◽  
A Current

People expect the state to create jobs and provide them with a social security net. Whatever its defects, whatever the virtues of the private sector, no structure other than the state can today provide citizens with the basic public goods. Under the present right-wing government of Nea Dimokratia in Greece, which is not particularly at odds with neoliberalism, a very active role of the state is not expected. Also is nor expected the introduction of a serious program of public investment and demand-boosting to stimulate the national economy and enter into a virtuous circle of recovery. Greece, which has undergone the economic crisis with drastic cuts in its traditionally deficient social state, has to respond directly to the marked underinvestment in public goods (in key areas such as education, health, natural disasters, dealing with decent living conditions).The most important tool for inputting resources is the tax system.

scholarly journals The variegated role of the state in different gated neighbourhoods in China

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1642-1659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Lu ◽  
Fangzhu Zhang ◽  
Fulong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Land Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Homeowners Association ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Housing commodification has led to the development of gated neighbourhoods in China. However, the types of gated neighbourhoods are very different from each other, and include ‘commodity housing’, affordable housing and resettlement housing. They might not be the same as the commonly known ‘gated communities’, which are characterised by both gating and private governance. Using three cases in the city of Wenzhou, we analyse the motivations for development, service provision and property management, and neighbourhood control. In commodity housing, the state is still visible and self-governance is limited, while the real estate developer leads land development and property management. In affordable housing, the state regulates the standards and the prices of services, while the developer is the provider of these services. In resettlement housing, the state uses a state-owned enterprise to relocate households, while the homeowners’ association and the service charges are ineffective. All these cases demonstrate the important and variegated role of the state and provide a more nuanced understanding of these gated neighbourhoods.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PERAN PEMERINTAH DAN MASYARAKAT DALAM SEKTOR EKONOMI MELALUI FINALISASI KEBIJAKAN

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeyen Novita ◽  
Wafiratulaela Wafiratulaela ◽  
Pandu Nur Wicaksono ◽  
Muammar Taufiqi Lutfi Mustofa ◽  
Wann Nurdiana Sari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Government

One of the processes carried out by the government and the community to manage existing resources through collaboration between the government and the private sector is one of the meanings of economic development. This is done in the context of creating job opportunities as well as efforts to encourage economic growth in a region. Thus, it is important for the government and the community to play a role in solving macroeconomic problems. The final objective of this research is to analyze in depth the concept of the three-sector economy, the rationality of the role of government and society, the scope of the government's role, government policy instruments and an overview of al-hisbah. This study uses a literature study where information is obtained through a collection of books, a collection of scientific works, several theses, encyclopedias, a little information from the internet and even other sources. Research shows that in the economy three sectors are played by 3 roles including households, companies and the government. The rationality of the government's role is based on the consequences of collective obligations, and the failure of the market to realize falah. The analysis of the government's role includes: the role of allocation, distribution, stabilization, the role of the state in overcoming externalities and the role of the state related to the implementation of Islamic morality. There are also three policies that cover, among others: fiscal policy, monetary policy, and supply-side policy. Some basic thinking about the role of society consists of the consequences of fardhu kifayah, the existence of public property rights and the failure of the market and government. While hisbah is an institution controlled by the government through individual efforts specifically assigned to solve problems related to the moral, religious and economic fields.

New Policy Instruments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Zito
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Societal Actors ◽  
Reduce Emissions

New policy instruments have come onto the policy agenda since the 1970s, but there is a real question as to whether the ideas behind the design of such tools are actually all that “new” when you assess the role of the policy instrument in its particular institutional and policy context. Taking Hood’s 1983 categorization of instruments as tools that manipulate society to achieve public goals via nodality (information), authority, treasure (finance), or organization, we can find instances where innovations in these areas pre-date the 1970s. Nevertheless, the mention of these instruments in international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national institutions and debates as the means for both improving governance and protecting economic efficiency have increased in light of a number of interacting trends: the rise of neo-liberal and new management ideologies, the increasing perception of a number of wicked problems (e.g., climate change) and nested, politically sensitive problems (e.g., health and welfare policy), a rethinking of the role of the state, and other reasons. A typology is offered for differentiating changes and innovation in policy instruments. There have been some very notable and complex policy instruments that have reshaped politics and public policy in a particular policy sector: a notable example of this is emissions trading systems, which create market conditions to reduce emissions of climate change gases and other by-products. Information and financial instruments have become more prominent as tools used to achieve policy aims by the state, but equally significant is the fact that, in some cases, it is the societal actors themselves that are organizing and supporting the management of an instrument voluntarily. However, this obscures the fact that a much more significant evolution of policy instruments has come in the area that is associated with traditional governing, namely regulation. The reality of this “command and control” instrument is that many historical situations have witnessed a more flexible relationship between the regulator and the regulated than the term suggests. Nevertheless, many OECD political systems have seen a move towards “smart” or flexible regulation. In promoting this new understanding of regulation, it is increasingly important to see regulation as being supplemented by, supported by, and sometimes reinforcing new policy instruments. It is the integration of these “newer” policy instruments into the regulatory framework that represents perhaps the most significant change. Nevertheless, there is some reason to question the real impact new policy instruments have in terms of effectiveness and democratic legitimacy.

scholarly journals Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 146349962110371
Author(s):  
Tessa Diphoorn ◽  
Nikkie Wiegink
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The State ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Private Security Companies ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
State Actors

The growing engagement with sovereignty in anthropology has resulted in a range of concepts that encapsulate how various (non-state) actors execute power. In this paper, we further unpack the concept of ‘corporate sovereignty’ and outline its conceptual significance. Corporate sovereignty refers to performative claims to power undertaken by (individuals aligned to) corporate entities with profit-making objectives within a state-sanctioned space. This contrasts with claims made by other (non-state) actors who operate in a permissive space that (regularly) lacks this legally grounded relationship with the state. By unpacking this state-sanctioned permissive space and highlighting the role of the state as the arbiter, our approach to corporate sovereignty offers a new comparative analytical perspective to theorize how sovereignty is performed and opens ethnographic avenues to explore how sovereignty is negotiated and co-produced across diverse localities. To elucidate our argument, we draw from ethnographic fieldwork conducted on coal mining companies in Mozambique and private security companies in South Africa. By focusing on cases that differ, we want to show the multitude of ways in which corporate sovereignty is enacted and takes shape.

scholarly journals State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilias Alami ◽  
Adam D Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
State Capitalism ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Capitalism ◽  
Capitalist State

This article interrogates the notion of state capitalism, exploring the contributions and limits of the concept as a means of theorizing the more visible role of the state across the world capitalist economy. We critically synthesize the key arguments, outlining commonly cited properties and practices of state capitalism, in three bodies of literature: strategic management, comparative capitalism and global political economy. We find that the term not only lacks a unified definition, but actually refers to an extremely wide array of policy instruments, strategic objectives, institutional forms and networks, that involve the state to different degrees. For this proliferation of competing usages to be productive and not lead to analytical impasses, we argue that there is a need for a heightened level of reflexive scrutiny of state capitalism as a category of analysis. In that spirit, we identify three issues that the literature must further grapple with for the term to be analytically meaningful, that is, capable of rendering (state)capitalist diversity amenable to analysis and critique: (1) the ‘missing link’ of a theory of the capitalist state, (2) the time horizons of state capitalism, or the question of ‘periodization’, (3) territorial considerations or the question of ‘locating’ state capitalism.

Hayek, Keynes, and the Economic Role of the State

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-50
Author(s):  
Vito Tanzi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Government Role

The chapter considers how two economic giants of the twentieth century saw the economic role of the market, comparing Hayek’s trust in the market with Keynes’ growing doubts about its role. There are areas where they strongly disagreed but also many areas of convergence. The greatest divergence in their positions was in the role of government in stabilizing policies. It can be said that these two economists actually had less extreme views that many assume they did. Keynes’ views were less socialist than many assume while Hayek’s views were less conservative. Hayek theorized a government role in regulations vis-à-vis the environment and vis-à-vis guaranteeing a low income for the poor; Keynes was against high taxes and was relatively indifferent to welfare policies.

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