“Thank heavens for the lease”: histories of shared ownership

Drawing on and developing Kingdon’s multiple streams analysis, this article examines the development of one aspect of the UK’s low cost home ownership programme: shared ownership. We demonstrate how key human and non-human policy entrepreneurs were able to set the agenda from 1973–1983 in favour of shared ownership; they neutralized the alternatives, while retaining some of their instruments; and solved a number of early problems by bringing key players into the programme. Our data-sets include a range of archival material and elite interviews. The policy entrepreneurs included John Stanley (who was the housing minister in the First Thatcher government), the National Federation of Housing Associations, and the Building Societies Association. Our development of the multiple streams analysis is to argue that documents, including the lease, act as policy entrepreneurs in their own right. The lease was central to the development of shared ownership and its transformation into a model lease enrolled other organizations, most critically the building societies.     

Homophily horizons and ethnic mover flows among homeowners in Scotland

Abstract

This article analyses mover flows in Glasgow and the role of ethnic homophily, the tendency for movers to be drawn to areas with similar ethnicities to their own. We look at how homophily affects the spatial relocation patterns of homeowners in Glasgow from Scottish, Indian, Pakistani and Chinese descent, and focus on the extent to which homophily extends beyond the immediate locality to surrounding neighbourhoods. Our interest is in estimating the “homophily horizon” – how far the gaze of homophily reaches in mover location decisions. Using a simple Schelling-type theoretical model, we argue that homophily horizons are potentially important in shaping the long-term social structure of cities as they may profoundly affect how potent the overall sorting tendencies of the housing market are in driving segregation. In principle, the more distant the homophily horizon, the more quickly the housing market will tend towards segregation, other things being equal. We adopt Folch and Rey’s use of the local centralization index to capture the influence of surrounding neighbourhoods in shaping mover flows and neighbourhood dynamics. Our estimation combines ethnic mover flows derived from surname analysis of house buyers from the house transactions recorded in Registers of Scotland data. Our results show that the presence of the own ethnic group in the local surroundings is important for explaining mover flows, and that homophily is a local phenomenon.     

Protection through property: from private to river-held rights

ABSTRACT

This article explores how private owners can protect bodies of water through private property rights. It compares the use of conventional property rights in the Netherlands and New Zealand with a novel approach whereby a New Zealand river owns itself.     

Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States

In the United States, community water systems are not only numerous but also diverse. Nonetheless, operational scale and public versus private ownership have dominated the understanding of safe water access, leaving underexplored many other factors related to governance. Applying insights from the Institutional Analysis and Design literature, we create and analyze a dataset of California's water systems classified into 26 structural types associated with distinct governance institutions. We document differences in the number of Safe Drinking Water Act violations among these types and demonstrate their relevance for implementing solutions targeting non-compliance. Advancing equitable access necessitates greater attention to organizational structure and institutional diversity in drinking water provision.     

企业社会责任对跨国并购绩效的影响——基于沪深A股上市企业的实证研究

为了帮助我国企业在跨国并购交易中更好地应对因企业社会责任表现所引起的跨国并购风险，平衡好经济利益诉求与社会责任的履行，论文以2009—2017年沪深A股上市公司109起成功的跨国并购事件为研究对象，基于利益相关者理论、社会契约理论与委托代理理论，研究了企业社会责任对于跨国并购绩效的影响，同时考虑了企业所有制、行业一致性和跨国并购经验的调节作用。采用多元回归模型的实证结果表明：1）企业社会责任对跨国并购绩效存在显著的正向影响；2）企业社会责任与跨国并购之间的正向关系受到国有属性与跨国并购经验的负向调节；3）当并购双方属于同一行业时，行业一致性会显著促进企业社会责任对跨国并购绩效的正向影响。建议企业主动披露企业社会责任履行状况并引入国际通行标准，也可借助国际公关公司制定企业社会责任战略。以上研究结论对中国企业履行社会责任方面具有一定的指导意义，同时也为跨国并购绩效的影响因素研究提供了新的理论视角。     

我国矿业权市场浅析

指出矿业权市场体系存在的问题以及从转变政府职能等 4个方面去推进矿业权市场建设     

混改中发电企业高价值专利筛选与价值评估方法探讨

混合所有制经济是我国基本经济制度重要实现形式。本文探讨了国有发电企业技术专利的特点,高价值专利的筛选,价值评估方法,供发电企业在混合所有制经济改革中参考借鉴。     

矿业权法律与矿产资源所有权比较

本文在论述了矿业权主要法律特征的同时 ,与矿产资源所有权进行了比较。指出了维护矿业权 ,就是维护国家矿产资源所有权     

Housing location choices of the poor: does access to jobs matter?

Abstract

This research investigates whether access to jobs affects poor households’ residential location choices using data from individual households in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Our results, based on discrete choice models, show that the effects of job accessibility on household location choices are contingent upon households’ automobile ownership and employment status. Places with higher job accessibility by public transit mode are more likely to attract poor households that do not own cars but have at least one employed worker or one labour force participant, while job accessibility by automobile travel mode has no positive effect on the location choices of poor households who own automobiles. The results stress the importance of job accessibility for those poor households with limited transportation mobility but strong needs for access to jobs.     

西安市城中村改造研究

以西安市“城中村”为研究对象，介绍了西安市城中村的现状，分析了“城中村”形成的原因及面临的问题，从社会学、经济学角度出发，探讨了“城中村”改造的对策，以使其与城市总体发展相互适应、相互协调，实现发展的可持续性。