ABSTRACT

The paper focuses on the control homeowners have over common issues in a multi-apartment building. It specifically aims to contribute to further examination and recognition of the role various forms of power play in residents’ everyday life in addition to the formal condominium arrangements. Drawing on wide homeownership literature and building on the structuration theory, we portray the multi-apartment building as a particular “locale” and propose a conceptualization of power in terms of “frames” to be tested for its explanatory ability. Using survey data from Ljubljana, our exploratory analysis confirms how, besides the formal frame of power (property and management rights), two other frames – community/social control and residents’ co-action – are statistically significant for explaining residents’ feeling of being in control, their role even larger. The proposed conceptualization might be useful for illuminating the cross-national variability in homeownership and possible parallels with other countries.

摘要

本文着重于控制房主对多公寓建筑中常见问题的控制。它的主要目的是进一步帮助检查和认可各种形式的权力在正式的公寓安排之外在居民的日常生活中所起的作用。借鉴广泛的房屋所有权文献，并基于结构化理论，我们将多层公寓建筑描绘为特定的“区域设置”，并根据“框架”提出了权力概念化，以测试其解释能力。利用卢布尔雅那的调查数据，我们的探索性分析证实，除了正式的权力框架（财产和管理权）之外，其他两个框架（社区/社会控制和居民的合作）在统计学上对解释居民的自我感觉具有重要意义。掌控之中，他们的作用更大。拟议的概念化可能有助于阐明房屋所有权的跨国差异以及与其他国家的相似之处。