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| Title: |
Tenants' Dilemma- On Collective Action in Housing |
| Author: |
Bengtsson, Bo |
| Appeared in: |
Housing studies |
| Paging: | Volume 13 (1998) nr. 1 pages 99-120 |
| Year: |
1998-01-01 |
| Contents: |
This paper discusses tenant participation in a rational choice perspective, where collective action will neither be initiated, nor maintained, unless found profitable in one way or another by every single individual taking part. This ' n -person prisoners' dilemma' indicates that not the failures but the successful cases of tenant participation call for an explanation. It is claimed that a better understanding of collective action in housing may be developed only if the general and specific conditions of the local housing arena are considered. This includes the following assertions: (1) different tenants may have different motives for taking part in collective action; (2) the dynamics of the relations between tenants must be considered when analysing the conditions of initiating and retaining co-operation; (3) there are different types of collective action in housing, including collective consumption, collective work and collective decision-making; (4) the physical and social conditions of specific housing estates can be more or less favourable to co-operation; (5) tenure forms often define the institutional conditions of collective action in housing. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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