Bricks in the Wall

The Politics of Housing in Europe

Alison Johnston, Paulette Kurzer

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Routledge
31 March 2021

Social issues & processes; Sociology; Politics & government; Political economy

Series: West European Politics

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics, generational divides, wealth inequality, monetary policy, and the welfare state.

Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability, public policy, domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance, housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh, innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality, how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion, highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership, demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism, and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe, even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Edited by: Alison Johnston, Paulette Kurzer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9780367743284
ISBN 10: 0367743280
Series: West European Politics
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alison Johnston is associate professor and the U.G. Dubach Chair in Political Science in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA. Paulette Kurzer is professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and Director of the M.A. in International Security Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.