Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science

该项目将调查美国城市公共政策制定者所作的住房和经济发展政策选择。 这项研究的目的是解释美国城市之间住房政策的差异。该项目将（1）确定城市间竞争对启动和支持经济适用房政策和计划的影响，（2）确定影响住房政策决策的政治因素，（3）评估经济适用房和经济发展之间的权衡。 人口在25,000人或以上的城市的分层抽样将是对包括市长在内的主要决策者进行邮件调查的重点。 根据对调查答复的定量分析，将选择四个城市作为案例研究。 这项研究的结果将为2005年城市住房政策的纵向分析提供基线。 该项目属于人力资本倡议的范畴。

The project will investigate the housing and economic development policy choices made by city public policy makers in the United States. The goal of this research is to explain the variation in housing policies among American cities. The project will (1) determine the effect of inter-city competition on the initiation and support for affordable housing policy and programs, (2) identify political factors influence housing policy decisions, and (3) evaluate the tradeoff between affordable housing and economic development. A stratified sample of cities with populations of 25,000 or more will be the focus of a mail survey of principal policy makers including the city mayor. Four cities will be chosen as case studies based on the quantitative analyses of the survey responses. The results of this study will provide a baseline for a longitudinal analysis of city housing policy in 2005. This project falls under the domain of the Human Capital Initiative.