Conclusion: power, planning and protest

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Lund
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Brownfield Sites ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
Post War ◽  
Council House ◽  
Numbers Game

In this chapter, the book’s content is reviewed in relationship to the themes of power, planning and protest. The potential ballot box consequences of changes in the franchise are explored from a public choice perspective with the governmentality idea used to explore how these consequences were mitigated. The politics of the post war numbers game are examined with changes in the class structure related to the post 1970s switch from supply to choice. Contemporary housing politics in England are examined with reference to generation rent, Starter Homes on brownfield sites, planning control, rent regulation, a residualised council house sector, the direction of housing associations to homeownership and the divergent policies persued in Scotland and Wales. The notion of housing as a wicked problem is explored.

Scheming

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seán Damer
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Voice ◽  
House Building

This book seeks to explain how the Corporation of Glasgow, in its large-scale council house-building programme in the inter- and post-war years, came to reproduce a hierarchical Victorian class structure. The three tiers of housing scheme which it constructed – Ordinary, Intermediate, and Slum-Clearance – effectively signified First, Second and Third Class. This came about because the Corporation uncritically reproduced the offensive and patriarchal attitudes of the Victorian bourgeoisie towards the working-class. The book shows how this worked out on the ground in Glasgow, and describes the attitudes of both authoritarian housing officials, and council tenants. This is the first time the voice of Glasgow’s council tenants has been heard. The conclusion is that local council housing policy was driven by unapologetic considerations of social class.

Voting at the U.S. Constitutional Convention

2019 ◽  
pp. 780-796
Author(s):  
Keith L. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes how the public-choice perspective has provided new insights into the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. It reviews articles on the impact of the rules of the Convention, attempts to infer delegate votes, and reviews how public choice has helped us understand the adoption of various clauses in the Constitution and studies of the Beard thesis.

Lässt sich ein Abbau der öffentlichen Verschuldung politökonomisch erklären?

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Döring
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Fiscal Illusion ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Fiscal Constraints ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Fiscal Behavior ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
Budget Consolidation

AbstractPublic debt is one of the controversial and therefore most exciting subjects in the field of public finance. Since the 1970s many industrial countries constantly accumulated public dept, and this development was explained mainly from a public choice perspective. In the meantime the trend has reversed. Therefore the paper pursues the question whether this change in the borrowing behavior of government can also be explained from a public choice view. For this purpose and with special focus on Germany, first, the fading away of fiscal illusion is considered, induced by the learning processes which the citizens have undergone in the meantime. In addition, changes in political ideologies and institutions are analyzed as well as the fiscal constraints which result from a permanent high governmental debt. It is argued that the sum of these factors is responsible for the fact that politicians do not pursue their previous fiscal behavior any longer and instead revert to a strategy of budget consolidation.

Federalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
Public Choice Perspective

Federalism is a governance structure that enables the aggregation of mass areas under one government. Federalism is a more complex form of governance than a unitary system. Under a federal structure of government, the activities are constitutionally divided (or shared) between constituent governments and a central government, implying a permanent coexistence and bargaining between participating governments and the center or among participating governments themselves. This chapter delineates the current state of knowledge regarding federalism and its twin concept of decentralization from the public-choice perspective. First, the chapter looks at federalism as an explanatory variable by examining how it shapes various outcomes ranging from economic growth to incidence of terrorism. Second, it deals with endogenous federalism and thus factors that explain how it emerges, survives, and changes. In the last part, the chapter summarizes several potential avenues for future research on federalism.

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