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Shai Karp

Program Area(s):  Law and Politics; Political Theory; American Politics

Regional Specialization(s):  United States

Dissertation Title:

Leasing Democracy: Private Power and Public Policy in American Rental Housing

Dissertation Committee:  Chloe Thurston (chair), Daniel Galvin, Ann Orloff, Reuel Rogers

Research Interests: Race-class inequality; housing; American political institutions; American political development; law & policy; urban studies; settler-colonial studies; contemporary political theory; qualitative methods

Publications:

  • John N. Robinson III, Spencer Headworth, and Shai Karp, “Performing Social Control: Poverty Governance, Public Finance, and the Politics of Visibility,” Sociological Theory 42, no. 1 (2024): 23–48, https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751231222476.