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PROPERTY AND DEMOCRACY: AUTHORITY IN FOUR AMERICAN PROPERTY-RIGHTS REGIMES by Steven Edward Horn A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL SCIENCE) May 2008
Copyright 2008 Steven Edward Horn
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| Title | Property and democracy: authority in four American property-rights regimes |
| Author | Horn, Steven Edward |
| Author email | shorn@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-03-25 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 21 Apr. 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-04-21 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gillman, Howard |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dekmejian, Richard Seip, Terry |
| Abstract | What is the relationship between property rights and democratic authority? Answers to this question have tended to fall within two broad schools of thought. The first, which may be regarded as liberal, argues that property rights are essential to democracy. The second more critical tradition contends that private property rights commitments are often in conflict with democracy.; While the debate over the "true relationship" between property rights and democracy has raged, the discussion is often pitched at too high a level of abstraction. Historical examples of shifting property relations are often wielded by critical legal historians in order to demonstrate the contingent nature of property rights, but nobody has attempted to study the "democratic" logic of property in relation to specific historical settings in which there were potentially evolving conceptions of property and democracy operating alongside each other.; This dissertation documents various ways that property-based communities can be organized, some of which are more accommodating to democratic values than others, and some of which promote individual autonomy more than others. Through the analysis of four American property-rights regimes this dissertation illuminates some of the nuances that are overlooked in the more theoretical literature.; I employ a "democracy index" comprised of five standards to evaluate the cases, which include nineteenth-century municipalities, company towns of the same era, contemporary common interest developments, and Disney's town of Celebration, Florida.; The notion that private property rights are necessarily related to positive democratic feedbacks comes under considerable fire here. In all four property-rights regimes, the structure of property rights either acted as a drag on democracy, or it provided the legitimate authority necessary to set up particularly undemocratic realms. |
| Keyword | property; democracy; company town; common interest development; HOA; Disney |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Celebration |
| Geographic subject (state) | Florida |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | after 1900 |
| Coverage era | 19th century; 20th century |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1146 |
| Rights | Horn, Steven Edward |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Horn-20080421 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Horn-20080421.pdf |
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| Full text | PROPERTY AND DEMOCRACY: AUTHORITY IN FOUR AMERICAN PROPERTY-RIGHTS REGIMES by Steven Edward Horn A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL SCIENCE) May 2008 Copyright 2008 Steven Edward Horn |
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