HOUSING SYSTEMS EAST AND WEST — THE USES AND LIMITATIONS OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 June 1994
Abstract
Comparative studies of social policy in general, and housing is no exception, are always fraught with difficulties. There are very few attempts which entirely manage to escape both of the major traps. On the one hand is the danger of drifting into an abstract empiricism which can end up concentrating on such factors as the details of subsidy systems or the precise percentages of income which people pay for housing in various countries. At best this becomes numbingly boring and at worst (for example where payment or subsidy figures are described in local currency terms without indicating exchange rates) incomprehensible.
Citation
Gregory, P. (1994), "HOUSING SYSTEMS EAST AND WEST — THE USES AND LIMITATIONS OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 14 No. 6/7, pp. 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013198
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1994, MCB UP Limited