As a group, renters experience a broader range of housing problems than do owners, and
disasters worsen these problems. Yet to date, housing tenure has been relatively …

From both a practical and a theoretical perspective, improved public sector performance has
preoccupied policymakers, managers, and analysts around the world. There is broad …

We conducted a meta–analysis of Rusbult's Investment Model of commitment. Across 52
studies, including 60 independent samples and 11,582 participants, satisfaction with …

Political legitimacy is a key concept in both macro and micro theories. Pioneers in survey-
based research on alienation and system support envisioned addressing macro questions …

The investment model of commitment processes is rooted in interdependence theory and
emerged from the broader scientific zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s that sought to …

A major objective of many neighborhood revitalization programs is to increase
homeownership. Conventional wisdom holds that this is one of the best ways to stabilize …

We evaluate a theory of the effects of publishing performance information on citizens'
collective voice to local providers about public service performance and the perceptions and …

Expectations disconfirmation and expectations anchoring are two increasingly influential
approaches to understanding individuals' satisfaction and dissatisfaction with public …

Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an
important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have …

This study tests the effects of neighborhood inequality and heterogeneity on crime rates. The
results of this study, which were obtained by using a large sample of census tracts in 19 …