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@drkoeppe.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 2:12 PM

Please submit to our panel on Housing Conflicts & Politics at the German political science conference next year, #DVPWkongress2027, deadline 31 Oct 2026
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Panel 1045 | Housing Conflicts and Politics

Panel-Chair(s) / Panel Chair(s):

Köppe, Stephan, Dr. Associate Professor, University College Dublin, stephan.koeppe@ucd.ie
Neimanns, Eric, Dr., Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, erik.neimanns@mpifg.de

Schlagwörter / Keywords: housing, political economy, social policy

Zuordnung zu Untergliederungen / Classification:

Sektion Politische Ökonomie
AK Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung

Kurzbeschreibung / Abstract:

Housing has become a highly topical and contested policy area within political economy and social policy (Köppe/Byrne 2024). Comparative housing studies have considered rising housing inequalities and the changing institutional policy landscape (e.g. financializaton), yet the politics behind these trends are still not well understood. We welcome any paper that address the politics of housing and the distributive conflicts around prioritising certain tenure types. Papers with a focus on the following questions are prioritised:

What are the partisan preferences for housing policies?

While political economy scholars have developed partisan cleavage theories for the welfare state in general, these preferences are less clear cut for housing policy. We encourage papers that address the complex partisan preferences with regards to homeownership, rental regulation and social housing and how these have changed over time.

How do housing policies differ?

Since the 1990s welfare regime theories have evolved and provide very specific insights for health, pensions and other policy fields. Yet, the housing regime literature mainly describes housing outcomes (e.g. tenure), instead of actual policy differences. Papers that aim to explain housing policy differences across countries are welcome.

Housing policy actors

The political advocacy of housing policy actors is still poorly understood. Recent advances consider how unions consider house prices in wage bargaining (Neimanns 2026), how f…

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