Jeffrey Rosen
Biographic Data
| ID | 99954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Rosen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosen |
| SIGNATURE | ROSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1933-4820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Scams all the way up: The scam as vernacular analytic of digital capitalism
Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we ar…
The variegated hinterlands of the digital growth machine
Digital capitalism reorganizes and differentiates land outside of urban cores into a variegated, novel set of hinterlands: spaces primed to support the specific needs of digital technology sector-related activities and associated urban growth. As cities operate as capital accumulation vehicles under digital capitalism, the sector reinforces and transforms extractive hinterland dynamics that have long supported cities, while expanding hinterland f…
Harassment or neglect? How market dynamics and rent control shape landlord behaviour in Los Angeles
This paper examines whether and how housing market dynamics shape landlords’ profit-seeking behaviours, focusing on harassment and property neglect. Leveraging household survey data, we assess whether differences between market and contract rents, rent control and gentrification influence landlord behaviour. Findings reveal that one-quarter of respondents reported inadequate maintenance from landlords within the past two years, and more than one-…
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse
Land ownership, occupancy, and use are enduringly central components of economies and societies across the world. Even in a capitalist economy increasingly mediated through digital technologies, land remains foundational to wide-ranging aspects of social life. However, conceptualizations of land fundamentally transform through virtual environments like the Metaverse, where digital or virtual land is a core feature. This article examines the const…
Signaling Hinterlands and the Spatial Networks of Digital Capitalism
This article develops the concept of signaling hinterlands to explain how digital social networks extend and shift the interconnections between a metropolis and its hinterlands. The relationship between metropolis and hinterlands—the multiple, overlapping, networked geographies on which cities rely—is a long-standing area of geographical inquiry. This dynamic reflects networks of densely and more sparsely populated places connected by asymmetric …
Rental Affordability, Coping Strategies, and Impacts in Diverse Immigrant Communities
Rental affordability represents a growing issue across the United States. Existing research largely focuses on consumption trade-offs related to rising rents or the impacts of poverty more generally. Much remains unknown about how rental affordability shapes household, family, and community-level dynamics, including differences in impacts and coping strategies across groups. We use data from focus groups with low-income immigrant and refugee hous…
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles
Prior research shows that households reduce consumption of basic necessities in response to an increasing rent burden. However, questions remain regarding the interrelated, cumulative tactics renters use to survive amidst declining affordability. We address these critical questions by leveraging data from a door to door household survey in South and Central Los Angeles. First, we find that rent-burdened households (those paying over 30% of their …
The Digital Growth Machine: Urban Change and the Ideology of Technology
Technology sector–led urban growth combines digital accumulation and urban accumulation dynamics to transform urban growth processes and outcomes. Together, these forces create the digital growth machine: a potent urban growth variation that fosters four related capital accumulation avenues that enable and support its activities. First, the digital growth machine extends long-standing land development and industrial attraction strategies to promo…
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
A riveting new examination of the leading progressive justice of his era, published in the centennial year of his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirma…
Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance
This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision making, frameworks, and outcomes. Two core dimensions of this ideology of technology in urban governance interact to consequentially reshape urban processes: (1) the priority of attracting high-technology industries as engines for urban economies and (…
From Citizen Control to Co-Production: Moving Beyond a Linear Conception of Citizen Participation
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Sherry Arnstein’s classic “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” still shapes our understanding of citizen participation within and beyond planning. However, Arnstein’s citizen control offers communities only partial authority. Rather, community control does not fundamentally alter the political and economic power differences between stakeholders that limit community influence over outcomes. In response, we …
The Important Role of Government in Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A Case Study Analysis of the Building Healthy Communities Initiative
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCI) are multi-issue, large-scale, often philanthropic investments in disadvantaged communities to comprehensively address community problems. We studied two sites of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative, Richmond and East Oakland, to examine CCI implementation. Prior research offers best practices focused on cultivating existing community organizational and organizing infrastruct…
Benefits-sharing agreements and nonideal theory: The warning signs of agreement co-optation
Community members seek benefits-sharing planning agreements to advance their own distributive justice goals by directing benefits to communities. Nonideal theory does much to explain the context and possibilities for these agreements. The agreements forged between communities and development interests seek to address, but not completely achieve, distributive justice via consensus about incremental changes in project benefit distribution. However,…
Financial Record Checking in Surveys: Do Prompts Improve Data Quality
Self-reports of financial information in surveys, such as wealth, income, and assets, are particularly prone to inaccuracy. We sought to improve the quality of financial information captured in a survey conducted by phone and in person by encouraging respondents to check records when reporting on income and assets. We investigated whether suggestive prompts influenced unit response, compliance with the request to check records, precision of estim…
Can the Judicial Branch be a Steward in a Polarized Democracy
At the beginning of his first term as Chief Justice, John Roberts pledged to try to persuade his colleagues to consider the bipartisan legitimacy of the Court rather than their own ideological agendas. Roberts had mixed success during his first years on the bench, as the Court handed down a series of highprofile decisions by polarized, 5–4 votes. In the health care decision, however, Roberts did precisely what he said he would do, casting a tie-b…
The Effects of Differential Interviewer Incentives on a Field Data Collection Effort
Surveys routinely offer incentives to motivate respondents and increase the likelihood of their participation, yet surprisingly little is known about the effectiveness of interviewer incentives. If interviewer incentives increase interviewers' success in gaining cooperation, they could help address declining survey response rates. In this article, we present the results of an experiment testing the effectiveness of interviewer incentives in the f…
A reversal for affirmative action
Persistence: An Independent Factor of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire
The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire was developed by Cloninger to measure three primary dimensions of Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, and Reward Dependence. However, Cloninger and his colleagues have more recently posited that Persistence, a subscale of the Reward Dependence dimension, be regarded as an independent dimension of temperament. The present purpose was to provide independent evidence of the status of Persistence, testing an …
The philosophy of mind: Classical problems / contemporary issues
Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance
This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision making, frameworks, and outcomes. Two core dimensions of this ideology of technology in urban governance interact to consequentially reshape urban processes: (1) the priority of attracting high-technology industries as engines for urban economies and (…
The Digital Growth Machine: Urban Change and the Ideology of Technology
Technology sector–led urban growth combines digital accumulation and urban accumulation dynamics to transform urban growth processes and outcomes. Together, these forces create the digital growth machine: a potent urban growth variation that fosters four related capital accumulation avenues that enable and support its activities. First, the digital growth machine extends long-standing land development and industrial attraction strategies to promo…
Signaling Hinterlands and the Spatial Networks of Digital Capitalism
This article develops the concept of signaling hinterlands to explain how digital social networks extend and shift the interconnections between a metropolis and its hinterlands. The relationship between metropolis and hinterlands—the multiple, overlapping, networked geographies on which cities rely—is a long-standing area of geographical inquiry. This dynamic reflects networks of densely and more sparsely populated places connected by asymmetric …
The Important Role of Government in Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A Case Study Analysis of the Building Healthy Communities Initiative
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCI) are multi-issue, large-scale, often philanthropic investments in disadvantaged communities to comprehensively address community problems. We studied two sites of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative, Richmond and East Oakland, to examine CCI implementation. Prior research offers best practices focused on cultivating existing community organizational and organizing infrastruct…
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles
Prior research shows that households reduce consumption of basic necessities in response to an increasing rent burden. However, questions remain regarding the interrelated, cumulative tactics renters use to survive amidst declining affordability. We address these critical questions by leveraging data from a door to door household survey in South and Central Los Angeles. First, we find that rent-burdened households (those paying over 30% of their …
Benefits-sharing agreements and nonideal theory: The warning signs of agreement co-optation
Community members seek benefits-sharing planning agreements to advance their own distributive justice goals by directing benefits to communities. Nonideal theory does much to explain the context and possibilities for these agreements. The agreements forged between communities and development interests seek to address, but not completely achieve, distributive justice via consensus about incremental changes in project benefit distribution. However,…
Can the Judicial Branch be a Steward in a Polarized Democracy
At the beginning of his first term as Chief Justice, John Roberts pledged to try to persuade his colleagues to consider the bipartisan legitimacy of the Court rather than their own ideological agendas. Roberts had mixed success during his first years on the bench, as the Court handed down a series of highprofile decisions by polarized, 5–4 votes. In the health care decision, however, Roberts did precisely what he said he would do, casting a tie-b…
The Effects of Differential Interviewer Incentives on a Field Data Collection Effort
Surveys routinely offer incentives to motivate respondents and increase the likelihood of their participation, yet surprisingly little is known about the effectiveness of interviewer incentives. If interviewer incentives increase interviewers' success in gaining cooperation, they could help address declining survey response rates. In this article, we present the results of an experiment testing the effectiveness of interviewer incentives in the f…
Harassment or neglect? How market dynamics and rent control shape landlord behaviour in Los Angeles
This paper examines whether and how housing market dynamics shape landlords’ profit-seeking behaviours, focusing on harassment and property neglect. Leveraging household survey data, we assess whether differences between market and contract rents, rent control and gentrification influence landlord behaviour. Findings reveal that one-quarter of respondents reported inadequate maintenance from landlords within the past two years, and more than one-…
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse
Land ownership, occupancy, and use are enduringly central components of economies and societies across the world. Even in a capitalist economy increasingly mediated through digital technologies, land remains foundational to wide-ranging aspects of social life. However, conceptualizations of land fundamentally transform through virtual environments like the Metaverse, where digital or virtual land is a core feature. This article examines the const…
Financial Record Checking in Surveys: Do Prompts Improve Data Quality
Self-reports of financial information in surveys, such as wealth, income, and assets, are particularly prone to inaccuracy. We sought to improve the quality of financial information captured in a survey conducted by phone and in person by encouraging respondents to check records when reporting on income and assets. We investigated whether suggestive prompts influenced unit response, compliance with the request to check records, precision of estim…
The philosophy of mind: Classical problems / contemporary issues
Persistence: An Independent Factor of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire
The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire was developed by Cloninger to measure three primary dimensions of Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, and Reward Dependence. However, Cloninger and his colleagues have more recently posited that Persistence, a subscale of the Reward Dependence dimension, be regarded as an independent dimension of temperament. The present purpose was to provide independent evidence of the status of Persistence, testing an …
A reversal for affirmative action
The Effects of Differential Interviewer Incentives on a Field Data Collection Effort
Surveys routinely offer incentives to motivate respondents and increase the likelihood of their participation, yet surprisingly little is known about the effectiveness of interviewer incentives. If interviewer incentives increase interviewers' success in gaining cooperation, they could help address declining survey response rates. In this article, we present the results of an experiment testing the effectiveness of interviewer incentives in the f…
Can the Judicial Branch be a Steward in a Polarized Democracy
At the beginning of his first term as Chief Justice, John Roberts pledged to try to persuade his colleagues to consider the bipartisan legitimacy of the Court rather than their own ideological agendas. Roberts had mixed success during his first years on the bench, as the Court handed down a series of highprofile decisions by polarized, 5–4 votes. In the health care decision, however, Roberts did precisely what he said he would do, casting a tie-b…
Financial Record Checking in Surveys: Do Prompts Improve Data Quality
Self-reports of financial information in surveys, such as wealth, income, and assets, are particularly prone to inaccuracy. We sought to improve the quality of financial information captured in a survey conducted by phone and in person by encouraging respondents to check records when reporting on income and assets. We investigated whether suggestive prompts influenced unit response, compliance with the request to check records, precision of estim…
Benefits-sharing agreements and nonideal theory: The warning signs of agreement co-optation
Community members seek benefits-sharing planning agreements to advance their own distributive justice goals by directing benefits to communities. Nonideal theory does much to explain the context and possibilities for these agreements. The agreements forged between communities and development interests seek to address, but not completely achieve, distributive justice via consensus about incremental changes in project benefit distribution. However,…
The Important Role of Government in Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A Case Study Analysis of the Building Healthy Communities Initiative
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCI) are multi-issue, large-scale, often philanthropic investments in disadvantaged communities to comprehensively address community problems. We studied two sites of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative, Richmond and East Oakland, to examine CCI implementation. Prior research offers best practices focused on cultivating existing community organizational and organizing infrastruct…
From Citizen Control to Co-Production: Moving Beyond a Linear Conception of Citizen Participation
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Sherry Arnstein’s classic “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” still shapes our understanding of citizen participation within and beyond planning. However, Arnstein’s citizen control offers communities only partial authority. Rather, community control does not fundamentally alter the political and economic power differences between stakeholders that limit community influence over outcomes. In response, we …
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
A riveting new examination of the leading progressive justice of his era, published in the centennial year of his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirma…
Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance
This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision making, frameworks, and outcomes. Two core dimensions of this ideology of technology in urban governance interact to consequentially reshape urban processes: (1) the priority of attracting high-technology industries as engines for urban economies and (…
The Digital Growth Machine: Urban Change and the Ideology of Technology
Technology sector–led urban growth combines digital accumulation and urban accumulation dynamics to transform urban growth processes and outcomes. Together, these forces create the digital growth machine: a potent urban growth variation that fosters four related capital accumulation avenues that enable and support its activities. First, the digital growth machine extends long-standing land development and industrial attraction strategies to promo…
Rental Affordability, Coping Strategies, and Impacts in Diverse Immigrant Communities
Rental affordability represents a growing issue across the United States. Existing research largely focuses on consumption trade-offs related to rising rents or the impacts of poverty more generally. Much remains unknown about how rental affordability shapes household, family, and community-level dynamics, including differences in impacts and coping strategies across groups. We use data from focus groups with low-income immigrant and refugee hous…
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles
Prior research shows that households reduce consumption of basic necessities in response to an increasing rent burden. However, questions remain regarding the interrelated, cumulative tactics renters use to survive amidst declining affordability. We address these critical questions by leveraging data from a door to door household survey in South and Central Los Angeles. First, we find that rent-burdened households (those paying over 30% of their …
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse
Land ownership, occupancy, and use are enduringly central components of economies and societies across the world. Even in a capitalist economy increasingly mediated through digital technologies, land remains foundational to wide-ranging aspects of social life. However, conceptualizations of land fundamentally transform through virtual environments like the Metaverse, where digital or virtual land is a core feature. This article examines the const…
Signaling Hinterlands and the Spatial Networks of Digital Capitalism
This article develops the concept of signaling hinterlands to explain how digital social networks extend and shift the interconnections between a metropolis and its hinterlands. The relationship between metropolis and hinterlands—the multiple, overlapping, networked geographies on which cities rely—is a long-standing area of geographical inquiry. This dynamic reflects networks of densely and more sparsely populated places connected by asymmetric …
The variegated hinterlands of the digital growth machine
Digital capitalism reorganizes and differentiates land outside of urban cores into a variegated, novel set of hinterlands: spaces primed to support the specific needs of digital technology sector-related activities and associated urban growth. As cities operate as capital accumulation vehicles under digital capitalism, the sector reinforces and transforms extractive hinterland dynamics that have long supported cities, while expanding hinterland f…
Harassment or neglect? How market dynamics and rent control shape landlord behaviour in Los Angeles
This paper examines whether and how housing market dynamics shape landlords’ profit-seeking behaviours, focusing on harassment and property neglect. Leveraging household survey data, we assess whether differences between market and contract rents, rent control and gentrification influence landlord behaviour. Findings reveal that one-quarter of respondents reported inadequate maintenance from landlords within the past two years, and more than one-…
Scams all the way up: The scam as vernacular analytic of digital capitalism
Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we ar…
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