Table of Contents

Bricks in the wall: the politics of housing in Europe

Alison Johnston and Paulette Kurzer

1. Housing prices and wealth inequality in Western Europe

Gregory W. Fuller, Alison Johnston and Aidan Regan

2. The young and the restless: housing access in the critical years

Lindsay B. Flynn

3. Housing and populism

David Adler and Ben Ansell

4. The politics of mortgage credit expansion in the small coordinated market economies

Karen M. Anderson and Paulette Kurzer

5. Equality as a driver of inequality? Universalistic welfare, generalised creditworthiness and financialised housing markets

Bent Sofus Tranøy, Mary Ann Stamsø and Ingrid Hjertaker

6. From asset to patrimony: the re-emergence of the housing question

Dorothee Bohle and Leonard Seabrooke

7. The inversion of the ‘really big trade-off’: homeownership and pensions in long-run perspective

Tod Van Gunten and Sebastian Kohl

8. The politics of quantitative easing and housing stimulus by the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2008‒2018

Alexander Reisenbichler

9. Covering the private parts: the (re-)nationalisation of housing finance

Herman Mark Schwartz

About the Author

Alison Johnston is associate professor and the U.G. Dubach Chair in Political Science in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA.

Paulette Kurzer is professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and Director of the M.A. in International Security Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.