R Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 26162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4949-8634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 822 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis
Problem, research strategy, and findings Planners increasingly turn to municipal housing bonds (munis) to fund the construction, acquisition, and rehabilitation of affordable housing. Although the issuance of muni housing bonds more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention has been given to who issues bonds and what happens to the bonds after they are sold. Drawing on financial data sets of local bond issuances and bondholders,…
Property knowledge: Controlling the means of prediction and production
Disposable Spaces: How Special Education Enrollment Affects School Closures
Informed by austerity politics, struggling school districts have closed buildings to pursue cost savings. We investigate the factors affecting which schools are shuttered, proposing that the share of students with an Individualized Education Program (SIEP) influences the way building utilization is measured because of the different instructional spaces required. We examine the case of elementary schools in Chicago, where 44 of 402 schools were cl…
« Attrape-moi si tu peux ! »: Proposition méthodologique de capture de logiques institutionnelles en matière d’engagement social au sein du sport professionnel français
La création de Structures Dédiées à l’Engagement Social (SDES) telles que les fondations et/ou les fonds de dotation par les clubs professionnels français pour développer leur stratégie sociétale est une pratique en voie d’institutionnalisation. Ce phénomène questionne le(s) rôle(s) de ces SDES, raison pour laquelle nous mobilisons le concept de logiques institutionnelles (LI), emprunté à la théorie néo-institutionnelle, afin de montrer comment l…
Cost-outcome analysis of HIV testing and counseling, linkage, and defaulter tracing services in Bukoba, Tanzania
Effective services along the HIV continuum of care from HIV testing and counseling to linkage, and from linkage to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and retention, are key to improved health outcomes of persons living with HIV. A comprehensive analysis of the costs and outcomes of cascade services is needed to help allocate and prioritize resources to achieve UNAIDS targets. We evaluated the costs and population-level impact of a community-…
Value Creation, Capture, and Destruction: Hudson Yards and the False Promise of Self-Financing Mega-Projects
Problem, research strategy, and findings Municipalities relying on tax increment financing (TIF) to underwrite large-scale infrastructure and development projects assume that tax revenues from the increase in property values will be sufficient in the short run to cover capital expenses (i.e., that projects are self-financing). By examining a case of TIF in action, we move beyond expectations about how TIF should work in theory. Hudson Yards on th…
Symposium – Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development , by Patrice Derrington. London: Routledge (2021)
Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing, School of Engineering, 6429Stanford University, USA
Crowd control: The regulatory logics of urban crowdfunding
We examine the rise of crowdfunding platforms in the wake of the global financial crisis, particularly the claim that they offer an alternative to established methods of raising capital for real estate investment, enterprise development, and civic projects. We interrogate how these novel methods of aggregating users and their money in digital space produce different collective subjectivities. Drawing from an industry study of civic crowdfunding p…
Education Reform and Financialization: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools
Our fiscal analysis of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) from 1990 to 2018 contributes to a growing scholarship on the financialization of urban governance. We advance the concept of 'recursive austerity' to show how devolution and cuts at higher scales push local governments into the hands of both growth and debt machines. The use of short-term and variable-rate debt to pay for capital projects causes entrepreneurial and austerity strategies to chafe…
Incentives and Austerity: How Did the Great Recession Affect Municipal Economic Development Policy
In addition to cuts in social programs, the Great Recession also affected government expenditures once considered less vulnerable to austerity, such as economic development. Using a comparative case study approach, we examine economic development policies and practices in two cities, sampled for similar economic and fiscal conditions: Fresno, California and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We find that declining state support and local autonomy weakened the…
Embedding futurity in urban governance: Redevelopment schemes and the time value of money
Whether appraising development projects or underwriting bonds to finance infrastructure, municipal governments rely on "time value of money" (TVM) techniques to discount and convert hypothetical future cash flows into objects of knowledge in the present. I analyze these calculative techniques through participant observation and interviews with professionals involved in redevelopment projects funded by Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in the Midweste…
Do local governments use business tax incentives to compensate for high business property taxes
Variation in the Heartland: Explaining the Use of Economic Development Incentives in Three Great Lakes States
We identify the factors correlated with the use of economic development incentives after the Great Recession of 2007–2009 to determine the presence of entrepreneurial development regimes. We utilize a unique dataset that combines information on incentives (tax increment financing districts and selected tax abatements and business assistance) with economic, fiscal, and political characteristics for all municipalities in the largest Metropolitan St…
Predicting School Closures in an Era of Austerity: The Case of Chicago
What factors do administrators consider when (dis)investing in public facilities? We model school closure decisions in Chicago from 2003 to 2013 with multinomial logit models that estimate the decision to close or “turnaround” schools as a function of building, student, geographic, political, and neighborhood factors during two mayoral administrations. The results from our specifications validate the “official” rationale for closures and turnarou…
Anticipatory knowledge: How Development Consultants See the Future
This land was (not) made for you and me
For what it’s worth: Speculations on value in the postcapitalist city
Winifred Curran 2018: Gender and Gentrification . New York: Routledge
Taking a Risk: Explaining the Use of Complex Debt Finance by the Chicago Public Schools
In the decade leading up to the global crisis of 2007-2008, local governments in the United States used increasingly complex financial structures to underwrite major capital projects. These structures offered potentially lower borrowing costs while also carrying greater financial risk, and in most cases, the bond structures imploded when the crisis hit. Why did some local governments gravitate toward this part of the risk spectrum while others di…
Reconstituting the state: City powers and exposures in Chicago’s infrastructure leases
In the 2000s, cities across North America began leasing existing infrastructure to global investment consortia. Previous evaluations of infrastructure leases focus on the lack of transparency of the privatisation process and the terms of the arrangements negotiated by the public sector and the private concessionaires. In this research, we argue that such approaches fall short by failing to investigate the significant repositioning of the local st…
Performing property cycles
Economists characterize fluctuations in property markets as ‘cyclical’ in that characteristics repeat and recur instead of being temporally isolated or random. I argue that cycle metaphors naturalize change and distract us from the social and institutional relations underpinning transformation in local property markets. I emphasize the performative nature of cycles by focusing on the networks of actors – brokers, appraisers, investors, and planne…
From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago
Municipal Investment and Property Value Appreciation in Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing Districts
To determine whether Tax Increment Financing (TIF) triggers or captures growth, we examine the relationship between expenditures and property value change in Chicago’s TIF districts. A regression model relates spending type, which varies from infrastructure to developer subsidies, to a district’s property value growth between 2002 and 2012. Results show variation in the impact of spending, with subsidies for commercial development having the clea…
Rethinking Real Estate Finance in the Wake of a Boom: A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Double Issue on Property and Finance in Environment and Planning A
Second-Hand Spaces: Restructuring Retail Geographies in an Era of E-Commerce
Are online markets replacing or remaking second-hand markets in cities? The restructuring of secondary markets in light of virtual outlets like eBay is not well understood. In this article, we describe secondary markets and their important historic, economic, cultural, and social roles in cities. The literature on e-Commerce suggests that virtual retailers compete with bricks-and-mortar stores and potentially displace them. We question whether th…
Selling City Futures: The Financialization of Urban Redevelopment Policy
This article examines the specific mechanisms that have allowed global financial markets to penetrate deeply into the activities of U.S. cities. A flood of yield-seeking capital poured into municipal debt instruments in the late 1990s, but not all cities or instruments were equally successful in attracting it. Capital gravitated toward those local governments that could readily convert the income streams of public assets into new financial instru…
Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment
How do states make the built environment more flexible and responsive to the investment criteria of real estate capital? Spatial policies, such as urban renewal funding for slum clearance or contemporary financial incentives, depend on discursive practices that stigmatize properties targeted for demolition and redevelopment. These policies and practices have become increasingly neoliberalized. They have further distanced themselves from those “lo…
Reconstituting the state: City powers and exposures in Chicago’s infrastructure leases
In the 2000s, cities across North America began leasing existing infrastructure to global investment consortia. Previous evaluations of infrastructure leases focus on the lack of transparency of the privatisation process and the terms of the arrangements negotiated by the public sector and the private concessionaires. In this research, we argue that such approaches fall short by failing to investigate the significant repositioning of the local st…
Vanishing Marginals in State Legislative Elections
Computer Simulation of State Electorates
Development of a model for estimating public opinion in the fifty states can have a major impact on research in comparative American state politics. Until now the major studies in this field of political science have generally used aggregate electoral data, demographic data, fiscal data, or elite attitudinal studies to analyze state politics and policymaking. The research reported here was designed to give impetus to attempts to use national surv…
State Legislative Election Outcomes: Contextual Effects and Legislative Performance Effects
This paper adds to the growing literature on state legislative election outcomes. The empirical focus is on Washington state house elections for 1976 through 1984. Explanatory variables include measures of partisan strength, campaign expenditures, incumbency, and legislative performance. Separate models are developed for contests between Democrats and Republicans and for incumbents and challengers. As has been reported for other states, partisan …
Embedding futurity in urban governance: Redevelopment schemes and the time value of money
Whether appraising development projects or underwriting bonds to finance infrastructure, municipal governments rely on "time value of money" (TVM) techniques to discount and convert hypothetical future cash flows into objects of knowledge in the present. I analyze these calculative techniques through participant observation and interviews with professionals involved in redevelopment projects funded by Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in the Midweste…
Equity and Entrepreneurialism: The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on School Finance
How do the socially reproductive functions of local government fare within municipalities that adopt “entrepreneurial” economic development practices? This article examines the case of tax increment financing (TIF), a quintessentially entrepreneurial strategy whose use has significant fiscal implications for the overlapping taxing jurisdictions that provide these functions. Statistical analysis of TIF's impact on the finances of school districts …
U. S. State Legislators' Opinions and Perceptions of Constituency Attitudes
Voting Outcomes in the 1984 Democratic Party Primaries and Caucuses
Scholarly inquiry concerning influences on electoral outcomes in the presidential nomination process, though extensive, has been conducted almost exclusively with data collected at the individual level of analysis. The Michigan model of normal vote analysis suggests that long-term influences measured at the aggregate level, such as the sociodemographic, economic, and ideological characteristics of the states, are also important in determining ele…
Constituency-Level Competition in the U. S. States, 1968-1988: A Pooled Analysis
Tearing the City Down: Understanding Demolition Activity in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
We estimate the probability that a residential building in a gentrifying neighborhood will be demolished, situating the decision within a context of consumer preferences, neighborhood change, and public policy. We perform a logit analysis of address-level data for every privately initiated demolition permit issued in three Chicago community areas between 2000 and 2003. We find that smaller, older, frame buildings with less lot coverage had a grea…
Policy Congruence and American State Elites: Descriptive Representation versus Electoral Accountability
A concern with the representativeness of political regimes leads us to examine the relative merits of the theses of descriptive representation and accountability. To do so the degree of policy congruence between national samples of the mass public and three elite groups (county political party leaders, state legislators, state bureaucrats) on ten non-fiscal issues is analyzed. The analyses find more support for the latter rather than the former t…
Presidential Address: The Quality of State Legislative Representation: A Critical Assessment
An assessment is conducted of the quality of state legislative representation over the past 35 years, focusing on significant areas of change in representation. Legislative self-interest is presented as a problem in representation, with a position taken that state legislatures should not engage in lawmaking over issues of self-interest. Documentation is provided on the decline in choice in state legislative elections, on how the doctrine of "one …
Predicting School Closures in an Era of Austerity: The Case of Chicago
What factors do administrators consider when (dis)investing in public facilities? We model school closure decisions in Chicago from 2003 to 2013 with multinomial logit models that estimate the decision to close or “turnaround” schools as a function of building, student, geographic, political, and neighborhood factors during two mayoral administrations. The results from our specifications validate the “official” rationale for closures and turnarou…
Gentrification and Urban Children's Well‐Being: Tipping the Scales from Problems to Promise
Gentrification changes the neighborhood and family contexts in which children are socialized—for better and worse—yet little is known about its consequences for youth. This review, drawn from research in urban planning, sociology, and psychology, maps out mechanisms by which gentrification may impact children. We discuss indicators of gentrification and link neighborhood factors, including institutional resources and collective socialization, to …
Performing property cycles
Economists characterize fluctuations in property markets as ‘cyclical’ in that characteristics repeat and recur instead of being temporally isolated or random. I argue that cycle metaphors naturalize change and distract us from the social and institutional relations underpinning transformation in local property markets. I emphasize the performative nature of cycles by focusing on the networks of actors – brokers, appraisers, investors, and planne…
Does Tax Increment Financing Raise Urban Industrial Property Values
The paper examines the impact of tax increment financing (TIF) on the value of industrial properties in Chicago. Because TIF designation may be self-selected, a two stage procedure is used to estimate the influence of TIF. The authors find that the value of industrial parcels located in mixed-use TIF districts (i.e. those that also contain commercial or residential properties) is higher than that of similar parcels that are not located in a TIF d…
Incentives and Austerity: How Did the Great Recession Affect Municipal Economic Development Policy
In addition to cuts in social programs, the Great Recession also affected government expenditures once considered less vulnerable to austerity, such as economic development. Using a comparative case study approach, we examine economic development policies and practices in two cities, sampled for similar economic and fiscal conditions: Fresno, California and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We find that declining state support and local autonomy weakened the…
Taking a Risk: Explaining the Use of Complex Debt Finance by the Chicago Public Schools
In the decade leading up to the global crisis of 2007-2008, local governments in the United States used increasingly complex financial structures to underwrite major capital projects. These structures offered potentially lower borrowing costs while also carrying greater financial risk, and in most cases, the bond structures imploded when the crisis hit. Why did some local governments gravitate toward this part of the risk spectrum while others di…
Rethinking Real Estate Finance in the Wake of a Boom: A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Double Issue on Property and Finance in Environment and Planning A
Dimensions of Public Policies in the American States
Second-Hand Spaces: Restructuring Retail Geographies in an Era of E-Commerce
Are online markets replacing or remaking second-hand markets in cities? The restructuring of secondary markets in light of virtual outlets like eBay is not well understood. In this article, we describe secondary markets and their important historic, economic, cultural, and social roles in cities. The literature on e-Commerce suggests that virtual retailers compete with bricks-and-mortar stores and potentially displace them. We question whether th…
Race-based districting: Does It Help or Hinder Legislative Representation
Legislative Issues in the 50 States: Managing Complexity through Classification
In 1963 and in 1974 legislators were asked in a fifty-state random sample survey to name what they thought were most important issues of their sessions. Their responses provide the basis for classifying specific issues into twenty or more policy areas. Each issue was also described by the presence or absence of twenty-one contextual characteristics relating to the types of resources involved, the types of interest and conflict, and societal impac…
Pursuing America
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Computer Simulation of State Electorates
Development of a model for estimating public opinion in the fifty states can have a major impact on research in comparative American state politics. Until now the major studies in this field of political science have generally used aggregate electoral data, demographic data, fiscal data, or elite attitudinal studies to analyze state politics and policymaking. The research reported here was designed to give impetus to attempts to use national surv…
Tom Wolfe's Happiness Explosion
The "Politics" of Redistribution: Toward a Model of the Policy-Making Process in the American States
Dimensions of Public Policies in the American States
Partisan Cues and Decision Loci in U. S. State Legislatures
This study examines American state legislator orientations toward political parties and how these orientations relate to the legislators' cue-seeking behavior and their perceptions about the major decision-making arenas for state legislative policymaking. Using data from a fifty state sample of state legislators, several hypotheses are evaluated about the relationship of legislative party system support to partisan cue-seeking and legislator perc…
U. S. State Legislators' Opinions and Perceptions of Constituency Attitudes
Art-Journalism Revisited
Research Article| July 01 1979 Art-Journalism Revisited Ronald Weber Ronald Weber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (3): 275–289. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-78-3-275 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ronald Weber; Art-Journalism Revisited. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1979; 78 (3): 275–289. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Legislative Issues in the 50 States: Managing Complexity through Classification
In 1963 and in 1974 legislators were asked in a fifty-state random sample survey to name what they thought were most important issues of their sessions. Their responses provide the basis for classifying specific issues into twenty or more policy areas. Each issue was also described by the presence or absence of twenty-one contextual characteristics relating to the types of resources involved, the types of interest and conflict, and societal impac…
The Politics of Abortion: A Study of Community Conflict in Policy Making. Raymond Tatalovich , Byron W. Daynes
Policy Congruence and American State Elites: Descriptive Representation versus Electoral Accountability
A concern with the representativeness of political regimes leads us to examine the relative merits of the theses of descriptive representation and accountability. To do so the degree of policy congruence between national samples of the mass public and three elite groups (county political party leaders, state legislators, state bureaucrats) on ten non-fiscal issues is analyzed. The analyses find more support for the latter rather than the former t…
State Legislative Election Outcomes: Contextual Effects and Legislative Performance Effects
This paper adds to the growing literature on state legislative election outcomes. The empirical focus is on Washington state house elections for 1976 through 1984. Explanatory variables include measures of partisan strength, campaign expenditures, incumbency, and legislative performance. Separate models are developed for contests between Democrats and Republicans and for incumbents and challengers. As has been reported for other states, partisan …
Voting Outcomes in the 1984 Democratic Party Primaries and Caucuses
Scholarly inquiry concerning influences on electoral outcomes in the presidential nomination process, though extensive, has been conducted almost exclusively with data collected at the individual level of analysis. The Michigan model of normal vote analysis suggests that long-term influences measured at the aggregate level, such as the sociodemographic, economic, and ideological characteristics of the states, are also important in determining ele…
One Central Necessity
Hemingway's Art of Non-Fiction
Vanishing Marginals in State Legislative Elections
Re(creating) the Home: Women's Role in the Development of Refugee Colonies in South Calcutta
Constituency-Level Competition in the U. S. States, 1968-1988: A Pooled Analysis
Manufacturing Gender in Commercial and Military Cockpit Design
Based primarily on original interviews, this article compares the treatment of gender as an ergonomic consideration within military and commercial cockpit design. Both defense and civilian cockpits have traditionally been built to engineering specifications based on male anthropometry and tend to embody a physical bias against women and smaller- statured men. However, the design of defense aircraft has been more highly regulated, and more efforts…
Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print
Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practice
Presidential Address: The Quality of State Legislative Representation: A Critical Assessment
An assessment is conducted of the quality of state legislative representation over the past 35 years, focusing on significant areas of change in representation. Legislative self-interest is presented as a problem in representation, with a position taken that state legislatures should not engage in lawmaking over issues of self-interest. Documentation is provided on the decline in choice in state legislative elections, on how the doctrine of "one …
A Random Walk in Science
This anthology provides an insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The contributions record changing attitudes within science and mirror the interactions of science with society
Race-based districting: Does It Help or Hinder Legislative Representation
Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment
How do states make the built environment more flexible and responsive to the investment criteria of real estate capital? Spatial policies, such as urban renewal funding for slum clearance or contemporary financial incentives, depend on discursive practices that stigmatize properties targeted for demolition and redevelopment. These policies and practices have become increasingly neoliberalized. They have further distanced themselves from those “lo…
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