CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Krarup, Malthe |
|---|---|
| Title | The Rising Housing Divide: How Voters Are Responding To The Increasing Gap Between Renting And Owning |
| Summary | This study seeks to understand how developments in housing costs influence the differences in political behaviour and opinion amongst tenants and homeowners. Specifically, it explores how attitudes towards economic redistribution and party-choice have changed in Denmark in line with increasing prices in the housing market and analyses the effect of equity levels in mediating this relationship. A mixture of descriptive housing market data and surveys from the Danish National Election Survey from 1998 to 2022, is used to conduct a cross-sectional analysis of changes in the effect of being a homeowner on party-choice, preference for public sector improvements over tax cuts, and self-identification on a left-right scale. The study finds significant effects of homeownership on party choice and left-right identification in 2007 and 2022, where housing costs peaks, and for some effects to be even stronger in the Copenhagen region where prices have increased the most. Additionally, households with a mid-level of equity are found to be more in favour of public spending than households with low- and high levels of equity, indicating a more complex relationship between redistributional preferences and housing equity than purely wealth-driven dynamic common in the literature on economic voting. |
| Supervisor | Duman, Anil |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/krarup_malthe.pdf |
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