Alex Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9806-7726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Where Is the Housing Shortage? Reply to Respondents
In our article, we argue that few metropolitan markets suffer from a housing shortage. We use decennial census data to look at the growth of the housing stock from 2000 to 2010 and onward to 2020 i
Where Is the Housing Shortage
This article examines the extent to which the US as a whole and its metropolitan areas face a housing shortage by comparing change in total housing units and total households from 2000 to 2020. Although various studies indicate that the nation has a shortage of anywhere from 2 million to 4 million units, Census data show little evidence of a shortage. Household formation did exceed the growth of households from 2010 to 2020, but that does not tak…
Housing for People with Disabilities: A Review of State Olmstead and HUD Consolidated Plans
Although some scholars have discussed the serious shortage of appropriate housing for people with disabilities, planners and housing policy makers have been largely silent on this issue. We summarize the literature, to date, about the housing needs of people with disabilities in the United States. We investigate what progress states have made in addressing these needs since the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) by examining recent court-orde…
The Uses and Limits of Architectural Design for Affordable Rental Housing: Case Studies of the Complexities of New York City, USA
Affordable rental housing design and architectural practices have had a limited exposure and relationship in New York. The main design choices for both planners and architects have been to forge links through sustainable design and building formats. The three cases we highlight offer insights into both the varied forms of financial and policy assistance that have been required to create more innovative designs, but to also illustrate the limits a…
Electing Team Strasbourg: Professional Diversity on the European Court of Human Rights and Why it Matters
Reforms to the process for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights have generally focused on identifying the most qualified individual candidates. This Article argues for a more holistic approach, advancing a theory of why professional diversity on the European Court of Human Rights is an asset in collegial decision making. The results of original interviews with several Strasbourg judges are presented, followed by an empirical anal…
Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for System Reform
Housing Policy in Australia is the first textbook to be published in decades on that country’s housing situation. But it is much more than a textbook, as sorely needed as that is. The book is also
International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth
No simple solutions: Transforming public housing in Chicago
With this slender volume (only 160 pages), Susan J. Popkin makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the redevelopment of public housing and its effect on the lives of former resi
International Judges on Constitutional Courts: Cautionary Evidence from Post-Conflict Bosnia
Hybrid constitutional courts are associated with deeply divided and post-conflict contexts where the impartiality of the domestic judiciary is suspect. Such courts enlist international (i.e., foreign) judges to create an ostensibly neutral counterbalance to the presumed political biases of local judges. This mixed-methods case study of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina questions the value of these hybrid courts
Housing Affordability and Health: Evidence From New York City
It is generally understood that households make tradeoffs between housing costs and other living expenses. In this article, we examine the relationship between health-related outcomes and housing-induced financial burdens for renters in one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York, New York. Drawing from the Housing Vacancy Survey for 2011, a representative survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau of more than 16,000 households in Ne…
Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Stability
Northern Ireland’s consociational institutions were reviewed by a committee of its Assembly in 2012–13. The arguments of both critics and exponents of the arrangements are of general interest to scholars of comparative politics, power-sharing and constitutional design. The authors of this article review the debates and evidence on the d’Hondt rule of executive formation, political designation, the likely impact of changing district magnitudes for…
Judicial Impartiality and Independence in Divided Societies: An Empirical Analysis of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina
The role of constitutional courts in deeply divided societies is complicated by the danger that the salient societal cleavages may influence judicial decision-making and, consequently, undermine judicial impartiality and independence. With reference to the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article investigates the influence of ethno-national affiliation on judicial behaviour and the extent to which variation in jud…
Introduction to the special issue
Judges, Conflict, and the Past
Drawing upon interviews with senior judicial figures in Northern Ireland, South Africa and elsewhere, this article considers the role of the judiciary in a political conflict. Using the socio-legal literature on judicial performance and audience as well as transitional justice scholarship, the article argues that judges in Northern Ireland 'performed' to a number of 'imagined' audiences including Parliament, 'the public', and their judicial peers…
Evidence that accent is a dedicated dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of coalitional categorization
Evidence that accent is a dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of perceptual salience, familiarity, or ease-of-processing
Housing Policy in the United States
The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of the housing market and the nation’s recent signs of recovery. Like its previous editions, this standard volume offers a broad overview of the field, but expands to include new information on how the crisis has affected the nation’s housing challenges, and the extent to which the federal government has ad…
Public Housing and Vouchers
Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is no…
Preventing children's aggression: Outcomes of an early intervention
Mothers of medically at-risk infants were randomly assigned to a Healthy Start intervention (HV) or a cognitive reframing intervention (HV+). Outcome measures were taken at the conclusion of the intervention (1 year) and at the 3-year follow-up visit. At age 3, children in the HV+ condition (in comparison with those in the HV condition) showed fewer aggression problems (as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist). Maternal emotional unavailabili…
Lessons from the Housing Crisis: Lessons From the Housing Crisis
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, howev…
A cognitive approach to child mistreatment prevention among medically at-risk infants
The authors assessed the effectiveness of a home visitation program in enhancing the early parenting history of infants born at medical risk--a population that is at risk for mistreatment. A randomized clinical trial design was used to compare the effects of a cognitively based extension of the Healthy Start home visitation program (HV+) with a visitation condition that did not include this component (HV). In the HV+ condition, they observed (a) …
Domain-specific responses to power-based interaction
Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11 , Edited by Howard Chernick
Bank Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods: Do Community Reinvestment Agreements Make a Difference
This article marks a new direction in research on the Community Development Act (CRA) by examining the outcomes of CRA agreements, comparing the mortgage and home improvement lending of banks with and without agreements. The analysis examines Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for all the states and metropolitan areas with CRA agreements in effect and compares mortgage and lending to low-income and minority households and neighborhoods by banks wi…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support: The Management Challenge
The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network…
The Geography of Corporate Services: A Case Study of the New York Urban Region
This paper analyzes the spatial organization of corporate (also known as producer) services within the greater New York urban region. It examines employment growth trends for individual business, financial, and professional services, the headquarters locations of the largest corporate service firms, and the market linkages of corporate service firms and their clients. Certain corporate service activities have suburbanized far more than others. Su…
Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Stability
Northern Ireland’s consociational institutions were reviewed by a committee of its Assembly in 2012–13. The arguments of both critics and exponents of the arrangements are of general interest to scholars of comparative politics, power-sharing and constitutional design. The authors of this article review the debates and evidence on the d’Hondt rule of executive formation, political designation, the likely impact of changing district magnitudes for…
Bank Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods: Do Community Reinvestment Agreements Make a Difference
This article marks a new direction in research on the Community Development Act (CRA) by examining the outcomes of CRA agreements, comparing the mortgage and home improvement lending of banks with and without agreements. The analysis examines Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for all the states and metropolitan areas with CRA agreements in effect and compares mortgage and lending to low-income and minority households and neighborhoods by banks wi…
A cognitive approach to child mistreatment prevention among medically at-risk infants
The authors assessed the effectiveness of a home visitation program in enhancing the early parenting history of infants born at medical risk--a population that is at risk for mistreatment. A randomized clinical trial design was used to compare the effects of a cognitively based extension of the Healthy Start home visitation program (HV+) with a visitation condition that did not include this component (HV). In the HV+ condition, they observed (a) …
Judges, Conflict, and the Past
Drawing upon interviews with senior judicial figures in Northern Ireland, South Africa and elsewhere, this article considers the role of the judiciary in a political conflict. Using the socio-legal literature on judicial performance and audience as well as transitional justice scholarship, the article argues that judges in Northern Ireland 'performed' to a number of 'imagined' audiences including Parliament, 'the public', and their judicial peers…
Lessons from the Housing Crisis: Lessons From the Housing Crisis
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, howev…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support: The Management Challenge
The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network…
Minneapolis-St. Paul in the Global Economy
Through an analysis of foreign exports, foreign direct investment, and international migration, this paper assesses the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area's status as a world city. The data suggest that although Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities metropolitan area, is increasingly anchored to the global economy, the Twin Cities area is not a world city that facilitates international investments and trade. Instead, the increased internation…
Crisis of the Fiscal Crisis
Book reviewed in this articles: A Review of James O'Connor's The Fiscal Crisis of the State and its Urban Implications
Judicial Impartiality and Independence in Divided Societies: An Empirical Analysis of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina
The role of constitutional courts in deeply divided societies is complicated by the danger that the salient societal cleavages may influence judicial decision-making and, consequently, undermine judicial impartiality and independence. With reference to the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article investigates the influence of ethno-national affiliation on judicial behaviour and the extent to which variation in jud…
Preventing children's aggression: Outcomes of an early intervention
Mothers of medically at-risk infants were randomly assigned to a Healthy Start intervention (HV) or a cognitive reframing intervention (HV+). Outcome measures were taken at the conclusion of the intervention (1 year) and at the 3-year follow-up visit. At age 3, children in the HV+ condition (in comparison with those in the HV condition) showed fewer aggression problems (as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist). Maternal emotional unavailabili…
International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth
Crisis of the Fiscal Crisis
Book reviewed in this articles: A Review of James O'Connor's The Fiscal Crisis of the State and its Urban Implications
Corporate Service Linkages in Large Metropolitan Areas: A Study of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago
Some urban analysts contend that suburbs provide the same economic functions as the central city, and others argue that they lack the agglomeration economies necessary for high-level corporate activities, especially financial, business, and professional services. The author compares the suburbs and central cities of the nation's three largest consolidated metropolitan statistical areas-New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago-as providers of several co…
The Geography of Corporate Services: A Case Study of the New York Urban Region
This paper analyzes the spatial organization of corporate (also known as producer) services within the greater New York urban region. It examines employment growth trends for individual business, financial, and professional services, the headquarters locations of the largest corporate service firms, and the market linkages of corporate service firms and their clients. Certain corporate service activities have suburbanized far more than others. Su…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support: The Management Challenge
The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network…
Minneapolis-St. Paul in the Global Economy
Through an analysis of foreign exports, foreign direct investment, and international migration, this paper assesses the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area's status as a world city. The data suggest that although Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities metropolitan area, is increasingly anchored to the global economy, the Twin Cities area is not a world city that facilitates international investments and trade. Instead, the increased internation…
Bank Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods: Do Community Reinvestment Agreements Make a Difference
This article marks a new direction in research on the Community Development Act (CRA) by examining the outcomes of CRA agreements, comparing the mortgage and home improvement lending of banks with and without agreements. The analysis examines Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for all the states and metropolitan areas with CRA agreements in effect and compares mortgage and lending to low-income and minority households and neighborhoods by banks wi…
Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11 , Edited by Howard Chernick
Domain-specific responses to power-based interaction
A cognitive approach to child mistreatment prevention among medically at-risk infants
The authors assessed the effectiveness of a home visitation program in enhancing the early parenting history of infants born at medical risk--a population that is at risk for mistreatment. A randomized clinical trial design was used to compare the effects of a cognitively based extension of the Healthy Start home visitation program (HV+) with a visitation condition that did not include this component (HV). In the HV+ condition, they observed (a) …
Lessons from the Housing Crisis: Lessons From the Housing Crisis
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, howev…
Preventing children's aggression: Outcomes of an early intervention
Mothers of medically at-risk infants were randomly assigned to a Healthy Start intervention (HV) or a cognitive reframing intervention (HV+). Outcome measures were taken at the conclusion of the intervention (1 year) and at the 3-year follow-up visit. At age 3, children in the HV+ condition (in comparison with those in the HV condition) showed fewer aggression problems (as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist). Maternal emotional unavailabili…
Public Housing and Vouchers
Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is no…
Evidence that accent is a dedicated dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of coalitional categorization
Evidence that accent is a dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of perceptual salience, familiarity, or ease-of-processing
Housing Policy in the United States
The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of the housing market and the nation’s recent signs of recovery. Like its previous editions, this standard volume offers a broad overview of the field, but expands to include new information on how the crisis has affected the nation’s housing challenges, and the extent to which the federal government has ad…
Introduction to the special issue
Judges, Conflict, and the Past
Drawing upon interviews with senior judicial figures in Northern Ireland, South Africa and elsewhere, this article considers the role of the judiciary in a political conflict. Using the socio-legal literature on judicial performance and audience as well as transitional justice scholarship, the article argues that judges in Northern Ireland 'performed' to a number of 'imagined' audiences including Parliament, 'the public', and their judicial peers…
Housing Affordability and Health: Evidence From New York City
It is generally understood that households make tradeoffs between housing costs and other living expenses. In this article, we examine the relationship between health-related outcomes and housing-induced financial burdens for renters in one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York, New York. Drawing from the Housing Vacancy Survey for 2011, a representative survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau of more than 16,000 households in Ne…
Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Stability
Northern Ireland’s consociational institutions were reviewed by a committee of its Assembly in 2012–13. The arguments of both critics and exponents of the arrangements are of general interest to scholars of comparative politics, power-sharing and constitutional design. The authors of this article review the debates and evidence on the d’Hondt rule of executive formation, political designation, the likely impact of changing district magnitudes for…
Judicial Impartiality and Independence in Divided Societies: An Empirical Analysis of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina
The role of constitutional courts in deeply divided societies is complicated by the danger that the salient societal cleavages may influence judicial decision-making and, consequently, undermine judicial impartiality and independence. With reference to the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article investigates the influence of ethno-national affiliation on judicial behaviour and the extent to which variation in jud…
International Judges on Constitutional Courts: Cautionary Evidence from Post-Conflict Bosnia
Hybrid constitutional courts are associated with deeply divided and post-conflict contexts where the impartiality of the domestic judiciary is suspect. Such courts enlist international (i.e., foreign) judges to create an ostensibly neutral counterbalance to the presumed political biases of local judges. This mixed-methods case study of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina questions the value of these hybrid courts
No simple solutions: Transforming public housing in Chicago
With this slender volume (only 160 pages), Susan J. Popkin makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the redevelopment of public housing and its effect on the lives of former resi
The Uses and Limits of Architectural Design for Affordable Rental Housing: Case Studies of the Complexities of New York City, USA
Affordable rental housing design and architectural practices have had a limited exposure and relationship in New York. The main design choices for both planners and architects have been to forge links through sustainable design and building formats. The three cases we highlight offer insights into both the varied forms of financial and policy assistance that have been required to create more innovative designs, but to also illustrate the limits a…
Electing Team Strasbourg: Professional Diversity on the European Court of Human Rights and Why it Matters
Reforms to the process for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights have generally focused on identifying the most qualified individual candidates. This Article argues for a more holistic approach, advancing a theory of why professional diversity on the European Court of Human Rights is an asset in collegial decision making. The results of original interviews with several Strasbourg judges are presented, followed by an empirical anal…
Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for System Reform
Housing Policy in Australia is the first textbook to be published in decades on that country’s housing situation. But it is much more than a textbook, as sorely needed as that is. The book is also
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