Homeownership, Dissatisfaction and Voting

Holian, Matthew J.

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“…The level of education variable has three categories (primary school, secondary school and post-secondary or university education) plus a residual one (do not know and no answer). We rely on the housing situation as a proxy for the respondents' wealth, as we know that homeowners pay more attention to politics than do renters (Holian 2011). The housing situation variable also distinguishes three categories of respondents: the owners, the tenants and the persons housed for free.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Voters’ Knowledge of Their Representatives: The Direct and Conditioned Effects of Parliamentary Work

Audigier

Navarro

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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This article examines factors that influence voters’ knowledge of their representatives, a key element in securing the responsiveness and accountability of parliamentarians. We argue that the parliamentary work of MPs (Members of Parliament) benefits incumbents through increased name recall, and that this relationship is conditional on: the incumbents’ candidacy; the voters’ political competence; and their ideological proximity with their representatives. Combining data on French MPs’ activities with a 2007 CSES post‐election survey enables us to test our hypotheses, while controlling for confounding factors. The empirical analysis demonstrates that some parliamentary activities increase the voters’ capacity to recall the name of their MPs. The latter are therefore incentivised to be responsive to and serve their constituents. However, we also find that voters’ political competence and ideological proximity with their MP alter the relationship between parliamentary work and name recall. This may potentially introduce some biases in the democratic process of accountability.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voters’ Knowledge of Their Representatives: The Direct and Conditioned Effects of Parliamentary Work

Audigier

Navarro

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…The decrease in home ownership in communities of colour and shift to rental occupancy thus further compounds decreases in Democratic turnout because renters are less likely to voteand because Black and Latino voters are more likely to be Democrats (Florida Division of Elections 2017). Moreover, homeowners who are dissatisfied are significantly more likely to be mobilised and vote compared to other homeowners and after controlling for confounders that explain differences from renter voters (Holian 2011). Thus, affluent white homeowners who be underwater on their mortgages but not still owners nonetheless may be more likely to vote.…”

Section: The Link Between Foreclosures and Voter Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 91%

Vanishing wealth, vanishing votes? Latino homeownership and the 2016 election in Florida

Rugh

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In this article, I explore how race, class, and migration influence Latino household wealth, and uncover important implications for the close 2016 US presidential election outcome in Florida. I follow over 11,000 homeowners in the Orlando area of Orange County, Florida from 2004 to 2016. To proxy for immigrant incorporation, I leverage matched voter registration records and direct observation of borrower identificationdriver's license, green card/passport, or undocumented identification. Documented immigrants appear least vulnerable to foreclosure; multivariate analyses show that Latinos with undocumented identification are most vulnerable. Foreclosure and negative equity predict decreases in voter activity among Latino Democrats and Latino Independents, respectively, but not among Latino Republicans. I confirm this pattern at the precinctlevel using data on all Orange County voters. Across Florida, county-level Latino foreclosures and lagging home prices correspond to a decline in the Democratic presidential vote from 2012 to 2016. My analysis reveals the mechanisms that erase Latino home equity and how the loss of wealth may have played a role in flipping Florida from a blue state to a red state.

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“…Page, Bartels, and Seawright (2013) contend that wealthy citizens are concerned more about tax rates and unemployment rates than about (traditional, democratic, and progressive) values. In addition, studies show that homeowners participate in politics and elections actively to maintain public policies beneficial to the housing market (Holian 2011;Zavisca and Gerber 2016). Ansell (2014) and Persson and Martinsson (2016) further suggest that higher asset or housing values cause stronger conservative effects.…”

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The Housing Boom and the Rise of Localism in Hong Kong: Evidence from the Legislative Council Election in 2016

Wong¹,

Wan²

2018

chinaperspectives

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Localist parties have become an emerging force in Hong Kong's political landscape. What has caused the rise of localism in the city? Extant studies focus on cultural and social factors. In this article, we propose a political economy explanation: global and regional economic factors have caused a housing boom in Hong Kong since the mid-2000s and produced impactful redistributive consequences. While homeowners benefit tremendously from the hike in asset prices, non-homeowners stand to lose. Their divergent economic interests then translate into political preferences; homeowners support political parties that favour the status quo, while non-homeowners tend to support those that challenge it. Using a newly available public opinion survey, we find preliminary evidence in support of our argument. In particular, homeowners are less likely to identify with localist parties and tend to vote for pro-establishment ones. High-income earners, however, are more likely to vote for localist parties.

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Homeownership, Dissatisfaction and Voting

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Voters’ Knowledge of Their Representatives: The Direct and Conditioned Effects of Parliamentary Work

Voters’ Knowledge of Their Representatives: The Direct and Conditioned Effects of Parliamentary Work

Vanishing wealth, vanishing votes? Latino homeownership and the 2016 election in Florida

The Housing Boom and the Rise of Localism in Hong Kong: Evidence from the Legislative Council Election in 2016

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