Incremental Change in Housing Regimes: Some Theoretical Propositions with Empirical Illustrations

The durable structures of housing and housing institutions are often subject to long-term processes of incremental change. Nevertheless, housing studies have largely focused either on static snapshots of policies or, more recently, on the inertia of institutional path dependence, while processes of incremental change have been almost entirely neglected. Political scientists (Streeck/Thelen/Mahoney) have proposed a typology of patterns of incremental institutional change, and this paper explores the applicability of this typology to housing structures and housing institutions. We draw on empirical illustrations from the housing literature to show how five types of change – layering, conversion, displacement, drift, exhaustion – apply to housing structures and institutions. We conclude with some general observations on how the typology can be used in further studies of developments in national housing regimes.

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Document Type
article
ISSN
2336-2839
Volume / Issue
7 / 1
Pages
15-24
Date of publication
6.6.2020

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Bengtsson, B. , S. Kohl 2020. ‘Incremental Change in Housing Regimes: Some Theoretical Propositions with Empirical Illustrations.’ Critical Housing Analysis 7 (1): 15-24. https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2020.7.1.500