P M Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 9347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P M Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | P M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9755-627X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the successor govern once he comes to power. Then, once in office, successors consolidate power by initially relying on this power base to govern while marginal…
Elite Management before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea
How do dictators prepare for succession? Scholars have studied the determinants of succession, but we know little about the mechanisms, including elite management, of how succession occurs. The authors argue that incumbents prepare for succession by building a power base of elites outside their inner circle, for their preferred successor; doing so helps the successor to stabilize the regime. The authors test this argument by examining preparation…
Informal Settlement Upgrading and the Rise of Rental Housing in São Paulo, Brazil
Rental housing was historically a minimal feature of urban informality. Now it is surging amid municipal attempts to “upgrade” informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil. Drawing upon a mixed-methodological study of two favelas on São Paulo’s east side, we analyze how cycles of upgrading shape informal rental housing at the urban, community, block, and parcel levels, providing detailed comparative data for 2010–2020. Our findings suggest that rent…
Learning from Latin America's Informal Sector
This essay reviews the following works:Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street. Edited by Jason Corburn and Lee Riley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 315. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822963110
The intersection between the dwelling environment and health and wellbeing in impoverished rural Puebla, Mexico
This paper forms part of a major health needs assessment research project of small-scale subsistence farming households in three relatively impoverished villages located close to an active volcano (Popocatépetl) in the rural hinterland of the town of Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico. Our overarching research question is: how do housing conditions, the micro-environment of the lot and dwelling, air and water quality, patterns of food preparation and househ…
Renting and Sharing in Low-Income Informal Settlements: Lacunae in Research and Policy Challenges
This paper describes the nature of low-income housing markets for renting and sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews the importance of non-owner housing markets associated with early urbanization from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1940s when rental tenements of different types-often slums-predominated as migrant and worker housing. The rapid rise of informal settlements and self-building from the 1950s onwards inverted th…
Latin America’s Future Public Policy Challenges: A Ten‐year Time Horizon
This article identifies the most likely public policy challenges and agenda items that policymakers will confront in Latin America 10 years from now. While many of today’s challenges will continue to be salient within the public‐policy agenda—the “known knowns”—our goal is to drill down and highlight the most likely sub‐issues and specific policy imperatives and challenges in the medium term (the “known unknowns”). Fifty intensive key informant i…
El Título en la Mano: The Impact of Titling Programs on Low‐Income Housing in Texas Colonias
This article analyzes the impact of The Community Resources Group Receivership Program undertaken from 1998 to 2002 that provided clean property titles to residents in several informal housing colonias (subdivisions) in South Texas. Survey data were gathered from 260 low‐income households comprising two populations: those who had secure title from the outset, and those who were beneficiaries of the land titling program. Focus group interviews wer…
Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations'. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards
Journal Article Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885–1945: Perspectives from the ‘Four Nations’. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards. Get access Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885–1945: Perspectives from the ‘Four Nations’. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards. Manchester University Press (Devolution Series), Manchester, 2006. xii + 270 pp. IS…
"This Extended Edition, Manuscript Submissions and Acceptances Report for 2004, and Larr 's "Impact Factor
This Extended Edition, Manuscript Submissions and Acceptances Report for 2004, and LARR's "Impact Factor" Peter M. Ward The Rationale for this Extended Edition of LARR LARR readers may be wondering about the reasons for this "bumper" extended edition containing almost 200 additional pages. This is a strategic decision by the editors to almost triple the number of review essays included in vol. 40, no. 3 as a one-time mechanism of clearing the bac…
From Machine Politics to the Politics of Technocracy: Charting Changes in Governance in the Mexican Municipality
Hell Hath no Fury like an Academic Scorned”: A Reply to Pugh (with Apologies to Congreve and to Women)
In our response to Pugh's critique of our work which he rather grandiosely describes as ‘Cambridge studies’, we take major issue with his arguments on three principal fronts. First, he is very selective in his review of our publications, and in seeking to defend the position of the World Bank, UNDP, and UNCHS, he fails to acknowledge an extensive debate in which we have already engaged with senior analysts from those institutions. Moreover, his r…
Disentangling the PRI from the Government in Mexico
Este trabajo pretende analizar el grado en que el Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) y el gobierno de México se entrelazan. Si bien estos dos aparatos a menudo perciben como uno solo, es importante desagregar analíticamente sus papeles, funciones y acceso a recursos, así como diferenciar el personal y las carreras seguidas por quienes pertenecen a una u otra institución. El trabajo demuestra que estos dos aparatos son diferentes en muchos…
Residential Land Price Changes in Mexican Cities and the Affordability of Land for Low-income Groups
This research demonstrates that the price of residential land in Mexico declined significantly in real terms during the 1980s. Land prices appear to follow a cyclical trend which tracks Mexico's macro-economic performance. Data derived from advertised plot prices in newspapers, and from a large sample of household interviews conducted in low-income settlements in three intermediate-sized Mexican cities, suggest that, for the poor, real wage level…
The Latin American Inner City: Differences of Degree or of Kind
It is often assumed that the globalization of the world economy will drive societies and societal change in a broadly similar direction, leading to convergence in the process of urbanization. The observed diversity between places is the result of the engagement of the macroeconomic process with local social and political structures. Inner-city decline in many older metropolitan centers of the USA and the United Kingdom has occurred through econom…
The Land Market in Mexico under Salinas: A Real-Estate Boom Revisited
It is a central contention of urban political economy that changes in the macroeconomy will have demonstrable effects on land and housing markets. However, in few empirical studies has this relationship been investigated, particularly in cities of developing economies. The structure of the land market in Mexico under the changing economic conditions heralded by the election of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Mexican President for the six-year ( sexe…
International Research Workshop: Land value changes and the impact of urban policy upon land valorization processes in developing countries, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, July 1991
Housing, the State, and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities
Urban Renovation and the Impact Upon Low Income Families in Mexico City
Seventy-five shantytowns sites of 0.5 hectares and over located in and around the inner-area of Mexico City and selected for eradication in the early 1970s were revisited in 1982. Arguments that sites such as these became prime targets for redevelopment so that land could be freed for more commercial uses were not confirmed. The large majority of sites remain in residential land use and many have improved their physical fabric. Redevelopment, whe…
Community participation in upgrading irregular settlements: The community response
Community action by the urban poor: Democratic involvement, community self-help or a means of social control
In Defence of Philosophy in Schools
In defence of philosophy in schools
From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs: The Role of the Urban Poor in Latin American Cities (Review Article)
Political Pressure for Urban Services: The Response of Two Mexico City Administrations
The Latin American Inner City: Differences of Degree or of Kind
It is often assumed that the globalization of the world economy will drive societies and societal change in a broadly similar direction, leading to convergence in the process of urbanization. The observed diversity between places is the result of the engagement of the macroeconomic process with local social and political structures. Inner-city decline in many older metropolitan centers of the USA and the United Kingdom has occurred through econom…
El Título en la Mano: The Impact of Titling Programs on Low‐Income Housing in Texas Colonias
This article analyzes the impact of The Community Resources Group Receivership Program undertaken from 1998 to 2002 that provided clean property titles to residents in several informal housing colonias (subdivisions) in South Texas. Survey data were gathered from 260 low‐income households comprising two populations: those who had secure title from the outset, and those who were beneficiaries of the land titling program. Focus group interviews wer…
Community action by the urban poor: Democratic involvement, community self-help or a means of social control
Renting and Sharing in Low-Income Informal Settlements: Lacunae in Research and Policy Challenges
This paper describes the nature of low-income housing markets for renting and sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews the importance of non-owner housing markets associated with early urbanization from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1940s when rental tenements of different types-often slums-predominated as migrant and worker housing. The rapid rise of informal settlements and self-building from the 1950s onwards inverted th…
The Land Market in Mexico under Salinas: A Real-Estate Boom Revisited
It is a central contention of urban political economy that changes in the macroeconomy will have demonstrable effects on land and housing markets. However, in few empirical studies has this relationship been investigated, particularly in cities of developing economies. The structure of the land market in Mexico under the changing economic conditions heralded by the election of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Mexican President for the six-year ( sexe…
International Research Workshop: Land value changes and the impact of urban policy upon land valorization processes in developing countries, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, July 1991
From Machine Politics to the Politics of Technocracy: Charting Changes in Governance in the Mexican Municipality
Community participation in upgrading irregular settlements: The community response
Residential Land Price Changes in Mexican Cities and the Affordability of Land for Low-income Groups
This research demonstrates that the price of residential land in Mexico declined significantly in real terms during the 1980s. Land prices appear to follow a cyclical trend which tracks Mexico's macro-economic performance. Data derived from advertised plot prices in newspapers, and from a large sample of household interviews conducted in low-income settlements in three intermediate-sized Mexican cities, suggest that, for the poor, real wage level…
Informal Settlement Upgrading and the Rise of Rental Housing in São Paulo, Brazil
Rental housing was historically a minimal feature of urban informality. Now it is surging amid municipal attempts to “upgrade” informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil. Drawing upon a mixed-methodological study of two favelas on São Paulo’s east side, we analyze how cycles of upgrading shape informal rental housing at the urban, community, block, and parcel levels, providing detailed comparative data for 2010–2020. Our findings suggest that rent…
Political Pressure for Urban Services: The Response of Two Mexico City Administrations
Elite Management before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea
How do dictators prepare for succession? Scholars have studied the determinants of succession, but we know little about the mechanisms, including elite management, of how succession occurs. The authors argue that incumbents prepare for succession by building a power base of elites outside their inner circle, for their preferred successor; doing so helps the successor to stabilize the regime. The authors test this argument by examining preparation…
Urban Renovation and the Impact Upon Low Income Families in Mexico City
Seventy-five shantytowns sites of 0.5 hectares and over located in and around the inner-area of Mexico City and selected for eradication in the early 1970s were revisited in 1982. Arguments that sites such as these became prime targets for redevelopment so that land could be freed for more commercial uses were not confirmed. The large majority of sites remain in residential land use and many have improved their physical fabric. Redevelopment, whe…
Public Intervention, Housing and Land Use in Latin American Cities
This short paper is intended to describe a recent research project undertaken in Latin America. It began in April 1978 and was financed until September 1980 by a generous grant from the Overseas Development Administration ESCOR Committee. The general objective of the research is to improve understanding of the role and position of the poor within urban society in Latin America. More specifically, the aim is to understand how the needs of the urba…
The intersection between the dwelling environment and health and wellbeing in impoverished rural Puebla, Mexico
This paper forms part of a major health needs assessment research project of small-scale subsistence farming households in three relatively impoverished villages located close to an active volcano (Popocatépetl) in the rural hinterland of the town of Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico. Our overarching research question is: how do housing conditions, the micro-environment of the lot and dwelling, air and water quality, patterns of food preparation and househ…
Disentangling the PRI from the Government in Mexico
Este trabajo pretende analizar el grado en que el Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) y el gobierno de México se entrelazan. Si bien estos dos aparatos a menudo perciben como uno solo, es importante desagregar analíticamente sus papeles, funciones y acceso a recursos, así como diferenciar el personal y las carreras seguidas por quienes pertenecen a una u otra institución. El trabajo demuestra que estos dos aparatos son diferentes en muchos…
Housing, the State, and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities
Political Pressure for Urban Services: The Response of Two Mexico City Administrations
Public Intervention, Housing and Land Use in Latin American Cities
This short paper is intended to describe a recent research project undertaken in Latin America. It began in April 1978 and was financed until September 1980 by a generous grant from the Overseas Development Administration ESCOR Committee. The general objective of the research is to improve understanding of the role and position of the poor within urban society in Latin America. More specifically, the aim is to understand how the needs of the urba…
From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs: The Role of the Urban Poor in Latin American Cities (Review Article)
In Defence of Philosophy in Schools
In defence of philosophy in schools
Community participation in upgrading irregular settlements: The community response
Community action by the urban poor: Democratic involvement, community self-help or a means of social control
Urban Renovation and the Impact Upon Low Income Families in Mexico City
Seventy-five shantytowns sites of 0.5 hectares and over located in and around the inner-area of Mexico City and selected for eradication in the early 1970s were revisited in 1982. Arguments that sites such as these became prime targets for redevelopment so that land could be freed for more commercial uses were not confirmed. The large majority of sites remain in residential land use and many have improved their physical fabric. Redevelopment, whe…
Housing, the State, and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities
International Research Workshop: Land value changes and the impact of urban policy upon land valorization processes in developing countries, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, July 1991
Residential Land Price Changes in Mexican Cities and the Affordability of Land for Low-income Groups
This research demonstrates that the price of residential land in Mexico declined significantly in real terms during the 1980s. Land prices appear to follow a cyclical trend which tracks Mexico's macro-economic performance. Data derived from advertised plot prices in newspapers, and from a large sample of household interviews conducted in low-income settlements in three intermediate-sized Mexican cities, suggest that, for the poor, real wage level…
The Latin American Inner City: Differences of Degree or of Kind
It is often assumed that the globalization of the world economy will drive societies and societal change in a broadly similar direction, leading to convergence in the process of urbanization. The observed diversity between places is the result of the engagement of the macroeconomic process with local social and political structures. Inner-city decline in many older metropolitan centers of the USA and the United Kingdom has occurred through econom…
The Land Market in Mexico under Salinas: A Real-Estate Boom Revisited
It is a central contention of urban political economy that changes in the macroeconomy will have demonstrable effects on land and housing markets. However, in few empirical studies has this relationship been investigated, particularly in cities of developing economies. The structure of the land market in Mexico under the changing economic conditions heralded by the election of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Mexican President for the six-year ( sexe…
Disentangling the PRI from the Government in Mexico
Este trabajo pretende analizar el grado en que el Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) y el gobierno de México se entrelazan. Si bien estos dos aparatos a menudo perciben como uno solo, es importante desagregar analíticamente sus papeles, funciones y acceso a recursos, así como diferenciar el personal y las carreras seguidas por quienes pertenecen a una u otra institución. El trabajo demuestra que estos dos aparatos son diferentes en muchos…
Hell Hath no Fury like an Academic Scorned”: A Reply to Pugh (with Apologies to Congreve and to Women)
In our response to Pugh's critique of our work which he rather grandiosely describes as ‘Cambridge studies’, we take major issue with his arguments on three principal fronts. First, he is very selective in his review of our publications, and in seeking to defend the position of the World Bank, UNDP, and UNCHS, he fails to acknowledge an extensive debate in which we have already engaged with senior analysts from those institutions. Moreover, his r…
From Machine Politics to the Politics of Technocracy: Charting Changes in Governance in the Mexican Municipality
"This Extended Edition, Manuscript Submissions and Acceptances Report for 2004, and Larr 's "Impact Factor
This Extended Edition, Manuscript Submissions and Acceptances Report for 2004, and LARR's "Impact Factor" Peter M. Ward The Rationale for this Extended Edition of LARR LARR readers may be wondering about the reasons for this "bumper" extended edition containing almost 200 additional pages. This is a strategic decision by the editors to almost triple the number of review essays included in vol. 40, no. 3 as a one-time mechanism of clearing the bac…
Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations'. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards
Journal Article Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885–1945: Perspectives from the ‘Four Nations’. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards. Get access Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885–1945: Perspectives from the ‘Four Nations’. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards. Manchester University Press (Devolution Series), Manchester, 2006. xii + 270 pp. IS…
El Título en la Mano: The Impact of Titling Programs on Low‐Income Housing in Texas Colonias
This article analyzes the impact of The Community Resources Group Receivership Program undertaken from 1998 to 2002 that provided clean property titles to residents in several informal housing colonias (subdivisions) in South Texas. Survey data were gathered from 260 low‐income households comprising two populations: those who had secure title from the outset, and those who were beneficiaries of the land titling program. Focus group interviews wer…
Latin America’s Future Public Policy Challenges: A Ten‐year Time Horizon
This article identifies the most likely public policy challenges and agenda items that policymakers will confront in Latin America 10 years from now. While many of today’s challenges will continue to be salient within the public‐policy agenda—the “known knowns”—our goal is to drill down and highlight the most likely sub‐issues and specific policy imperatives and challenges in the medium term (the “known unknowns”). Fifty intensive key informant i…
Renting and Sharing in Low-Income Informal Settlements: Lacunae in Research and Policy Challenges
This paper describes the nature of low-income housing markets for renting and sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews the importance of non-owner housing markets associated with early urbanization from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1940s when rental tenements of different types-often slums-predominated as migrant and worker housing. The rapid rise of informal settlements and self-building from the 1950s onwards inverted th…
The intersection between the dwelling environment and health and wellbeing in impoverished rural Puebla, Mexico
This paper forms part of a major health needs assessment research project of small-scale subsistence farming households in three relatively impoverished villages located close to an active volcano (Popocatépetl) in the rural hinterland of the town of Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico. Our overarching research question is: how do housing conditions, the micro-environment of the lot and dwelling, air and water quality, patterns of food preparation and househ…
Informal Settlement Upgrading and the Rise of Rental Housing in São Paulo, Brazil
Rental housing was historically a minimal feature of urban informality. Now it is surging amid municipal attempts to “upgrade” informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil. Drawing upon a mixed-methodological study of two favelas on São Paulo’s east side, we analyze how cycles of upgrading shape informal rental housing at the urban, community, block, and parcel levels, providing detailed comparative data for 2010–2020. Our findings suggest that rent…
Learning from Latin America's Informal Sector
This essay reviews the following works:Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street. Edited by Jason Corburn and Lee Riley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 315. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822963110
Elite Management before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea
How do dictators prepare for succession? Scholars have studied the determinants of succession, but we know little about the mechanisms, including elite management, of how succession occurs. The authors argue that incumbents prepare for succession by building a power base of elites outside their inner circle, for their preferred successor; doing so helps the successor to stabilize the regime. The authors test this argument by examining preparation…
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