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Published in 2002, Housing Policy and Economic Power is a valuable contribution to the field of Human Geography.

Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns--death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues, including how gun violence is created and perpetuated in society, the various forms and social contexts in which it appears, and the impact of gun violence on different social groups, communities, and social institutions. Possible solutions to gun violence are also explored.--Adapted from publisher description. This book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns-death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues.

The study aims to identify agricultural land ownership policies by farmers in Indonesia, analyze their impact, and formulate recommendations for agricultural land ownership policies in Indonesia to support the realization of sustainable green agriculture in Indonesia. People or legal entities without agricultural skills and experience can access the farmland market in Indonesia today. Converting agricultural land into non-agricultural land, such as industrial or residential, has become a common practice, serving as a national strategic project to maximize economic income. Numerous agricultural land conversions to non-agricultural land without accompanying data supporting the existing land potential can disrupt nature’s balance. The loss of fertile agricultural land owned by farmers, because it does not correspond to their land characteristics, can affect food security in Indonesia. This explanatory social research uses a library study approach to explain the unhealthy phenomenon of agricultural land ownership by farmers in Indonesia, which results in the ease of farmland conversion as well as the impact of environmental damage. The study has produced several recommendations to give farmers a greater chance to retain their land and not transfer agricultural land functions based on good practices in European countries, such as Slovenia, Italy, Austria, and Hungary. This research shows how the European countries share a common focus on safeguarding agricultural land by regulating ownership and transfers to prioritize agricultural use, each country has measures that either restrict non-farmers from easily acquiring land or offer pre-emptive rights to farmers to ensure that agricultural land remains in productive agricultural hands.

The Right to Buy is the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, but it is also the most successful. Unlike the many studies that have focused on the costs of the policy and sought to show its negative impact, this book seeks to understand the Right to Buy on its own terms. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us - instead of a policy that sought to do things for people, the Right to Buy allowed people to do things for themselves.

'Investor Protection and Corporate Governance' analyzes the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and valuation. Using unique datasets gathered at the firm-level—the first such data in the region—and results from a homogeneous corporate governance questionnaire, the book examines corporate governance characteristics, ownership structures, dividend policies, and performance measures. The book's analysis reveals the very high levels of ownership and voting rights concentrations and monolithic governance structures in the largest samples of Latin American companies up to now, and new data emphasize the importance of specific characteristics of the investor protection regimes in several Latin American countries. By and large, those firms with better governance measures across several dimensions are granted higher valuations and thus lower cost of capital. This title will be useful to researchers, policy makers, government officials, and other professionals involved in corporate governance, economic policy, and business finance, law, and management.

Local governments often use corporations for public service output. In Finland, limited liability companies can be used as a means to produce functions that a municipality is required to engage in by law or those functions that are optional for a municipality. This paper explains the current state, regulative background and reasons for corporatisation in Finnish municipalities. We then present a legal analysis of the legal strategies provided in the legislation that a municipality can use to govern and steer its external corporate bodies. Understanding the legal boundaries and possibilities is imperative for extending local self-governance to MOCs, and to align their goals with those of the municipality.

Now newly expanded, with a with a new chapter on the spreading global economic crisis, Financial Fiasco guides readers through a world of irresponsible behavior by consumers, decisionmakers in companies, government agencies, and political institutions.

The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs -financial, psychological, and social -have been enormous. Yet Americans overwhelmingly still aspire to homeownership, and many still view access to homeownership as an important ingredient for building wealth among historically disadvantaged groups. Eric Belsky and Jennifer Molinsky have assembled a team of specilaists to reexamine the goals, risks, and rewards of homeownership in the wake of the housing bubble and subprime lending crisis. Contents Introduction: Low-Income Homeownership at a Crossroads Making the Case for Home Ownership as a Policy Goal1. Homeownership, Wealth, and the Production of Racialized Space 2. Is Homeownership Still an Effective Means of Building Wealth for Low-Income and Minority Households? Was It Ever? 3. Reexamining the Social Benefits of Homeownership after the Housing Crisis Supporting the Home Buying Process4. To Buy or Not to Buy? Understanding Tenure Preferences and the Decisionmaking Processes of Lower-Income Households 5. Developing Effective Subsidy Mechanisms for Low-Income Homeownership 6. Filling the Void Between Homeownership and Rental Housing Balancing Affordability, Access, and Risk 7. Standards, Loan Products, and Performance: What Have We Learned? 8. The Evolving Role of State Housing Finance Agencies 9. Mortgage Default Option Mispricing and Procyclicality The Government's Role in the Evolving Mortgage Market10. Rethinking Duties to Serve in Housing Finance 11. What Role Has the Government Played in Creating a Dual Mortgage Market in the Past and How Likely Is One to Emerge in the Future? 12. The Role of Mortgage Finance in Financial (In)Stability Sustaining Homeownership13. Protecting Homeowners, Post-Purchase: Lessons Learned 14. The Home Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis: Lessons Learned

Now newly expanded, with a with a new chapter on the spreading global economic crisis, Financial Fiasco guides readers through a world of irresponsible behavior by consumers, decisionmakers in companies, government agencies, and political institutions.

The paper presents an analysis of the shift in the ownership policy of the Polish government in office since 2015 towards a more active role of the state and a more reluctant attitude towards privatisation. This shift reflects a general change in the paradigm of the role of the state towards the concept of the state as a strong market player, which includes the strengthening of its ownership functions. Among others, it has led to stalling the privatisation process and concentrating only on its fiscal goals. Possible factors causing this statist shift are divided into two dichotomic groups: the government’s good faith vs. the impact of rent-seeking interest groups and endogenous vs. exogenous factors. Our main conclusion is that despite similarities with the trends observed in some other countries, endogenous factors such as increasing capture of the state by rent-seeking groups, and not the exogenous ones, including the global financial crisis, contributed most to the growing statist trends in the Polish state’s ownership policy.