S1E5 - Katherine Levine Einstein, Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

Our guest is Katherine Levine Einstein, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University and an author of Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis. Her co-authors David Glick and Maxwell Palmer are professors in the same department.

Michael Hankinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, joins as guest co-host.

Appendices:

Katherine Levine Einstein: Driving Turnout: The Effect of Car Ownership on Electoral Participation by Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and Maxwell Palmer.

Greg Shill: ACBNY v. City of New York (SDNY court decision from October 2020 holding NYC liable for failing to make its crosswalks accessible to the vision-impaired). Greg also wrote a twitter thread on the decision and some broader implications.

Jeff Lin: The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding

Michael Hankinson: Bringing the polls to the people: How increasing electoral access encourages turnout but exacerbates political inequality by Daniel de Kadt

Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @katherineeinst, and @msghankinson.

Producer: Schuyler Pals.

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