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In: University of Chicago Law Review Online
In: University of Chicago Law Review Online
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In: Electoral Studies, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 784-794
Prior work on political effects of personal asset ownership in the United Kingdom has found a causal link between home and share ownership and conservative political preferences and voting. These estimates appear to confirm the "ownership society" thesis tying privatization and asset ownership to improved prospects for conservative parties. This paper proposes a new identification strategy for testing this causal connection that improves on earlier research designs. I exploit temporal variability in panel data to better specify the definition of home ownership and control for unobserved confounders associated with ownership. Under this design, home ownership is found to have no or very weak effects on voting in the 1997 and 2001 General Elections. Where weakly significant results are found, they suggest a mixed effect on partisan outcomes at the ballot box. Finally, while extending this strategy to financial assets does support the "ownership society" hypothesis, doing so illuminates a very different set of identification problems, which point to underlying flaws in the "ownership society" argument itself. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
In: Journal of institutional economics, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 276-279
ISSN: 1744-1382
AbstractIn a recent article Wilson explores the origins and explanation of ownership (property) as a custom, and argues that the custom of ownership is the primary concept and that property rights are subordinated to ownership. I argue that Wilson's subordination argument is unpersuasive; the linguistic evidence used by Wilson fits better with the concept of possession; and ownership is not a human universal.
In: The journal of political philosophy, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 404-434
ISSN: 0963-8016
Two premises about ownership that contrast with prevailing views are developed from ordinary usage: (1) ownership can be valuable in its own right apart from the value of the object owned, & (2) ownership does not just label particular rights but more practically names a relationship to an object that forms the basis for claiming that ownership rights should exist. The owner's relation to object is an ontological one that is only partially & contingently related to ownership rights. This relationship resembles the relationship of a person to his/her body & is associated with the use of the personal pronouns I & me & the possessive pronouns my & mine. Concepts of value, pride, autonomy, status, & expressivity that enter into ownership & concepts of reference, allusion, & identity are discussed. Ownership provides surplus value beyond the value of the object itself because ownership value is one's own value extended to the object & implied in the use of the variant I(my) applied to the owned object. M. Pflum
In: Canadian journal of administrative sciences: Revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 5-19
ISSN: 1936-4490
AbstractOwnership is considered to be one of the crucial governance mechanisms; however, there have been no systematic attempts at validating the construct and measures used to operationalize ownership. We review the current understanding of ownership and the measures used by each perspective, namely blockholder/dispersed shareholder perspective, owner identity perspective, and aggregated ownership perspective. We thereafter critique each of these perspectives, offer hypotheses regarding their validity, and empirically assess each ownership measure vis‐à‐vis firm performance outcomes. We utilize a sample of 3,990 US firms to test our hypotheses and find no consistent results for the blockholder measure, or for the owner identity measure. However, the aggregated ownership measure consistently accounts for significant increases in explanation of variance in firm performance. Copyright © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 454
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 611
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 446
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 378
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 582
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: American federationist: official monthly magazine of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Band 35, S. 434-438
ISSN: 0002-8428
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 354
ISSN: 0032-3179
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 784-795
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Electoral Studies, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 784-794
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 394
ISSN: 0032-3179