Beyond Opportunity Hoarding: Interrogating Its Limits as an Account of Urban Inequalities

Imbroscio, David

doi:10.1080/10511482.2023.2173979

Housing Policy Debate

2023

DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2023.2173979

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Beyond Opportunity Hoarding: Interrogating Its Limits as an Account of Urban Inequalities

David Imbroscio

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“…Just as Ostrom suggested that SSGI be treated with circumspection, others have argued that viewing contemporary problems of racial and or economic inequality as rooted in, and thereby soluble though, institutional arrangements are missing the far deeper roles of capitalism and racism (either operating separately or in tandem as “racial capitalism”), which are seen to be the key drivers of urban injustice (Dantzler 2021; Imbroscio 2023). Urban Affairs Review is pleased to be a venue in which these issues will continue to be debated.…”

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Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Elinor Ostrom and the Debates Over Municipal Fragmentation

Greer,

Weaver

2024

Urban Affairs Review

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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Urban Affairs Review, each issue of Volume 60 features a UAR article that the editors and editorial board identified as representing a significant contribution to the study of urban politics in a given decade. Our first issue began with the 1960s and featured Robert Conant's "Black Power: Rhetoric and Reality" (Conant 1968). The second issue focused on 1970s, highlighting Michael Lipsky's "Street Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform" (Lipsky 1971). In this third issue, we delve into the 1980s with an article from Nobel Prize winner, Elinor Ostrom, entitled "The Social Stratification-Government Inequality Thesis Explored," which was published by UAR in September 1983.In her influential article, Ostrom critically assesses the argument at the heart of the social stratification-government inequality (SSGI) thesis, namely that the fragmentation of municipal space into separate jurisdictions promotes inequality along economic and racial lines, particularly with respect to the delivery of public services. Coined by Max Neiman in 1976 (Neiman 1976), the key ideas underpinning this somewhat inelegantly named thesis had been articulated by those such as Norton Long (Long 1967) and Richard Hill in the 1970s (Hill 1974). Hill captured the essence of the idea when he wrote: "municipal government becomes an institutional arrangement for promoting and protecting the unequal distribution of resources" (Hill 1974(Hill , p. 1557 quoted in Ostrom 1983, p. 95). As Ostrom notes, this concern gives rise to the policy recommendation that municipal boundaries separating central cities from their suburbs should be eliminated to reduce inequality.In scrutinizing this claim, Ostrom deconstructs the SSGI thesis into its central propositions, each of which are evaluated in light of the extant empirical evidence, including that offered by

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2024

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How neighborhoods came to matter more over time: A broad historical sketch

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A Research Agenda Pending Revolution

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Beyond Opportunity Hoarding: Interrogating Its Limits as an Account of Urban Inequalities

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References 49 publications

Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Elinor Ostrom and the Debates Over Municipal Fragmentation

Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Elinor Ostrom and the Debates Over Municipal Fragmentation

How neighborhoods came to matter more over time: A broad historical sketch

A Research Agenda Pending Revolution

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