Mark Elliot's scientific contributions

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... Association members, moreover, tend to be more hostile to new housing when compared with typical neighborhood residents, and even compared with typical homeowners. Musso et al. (2007) examine Los Angeles's neighborhood councils-quasi-governmental entities that give neighborhoods more say in planning decisions-and show that their boards are disproportionately wealthy and white in a city that is neither. All these findings are consistent with a broader research in political science suggesting that income, wealth, and racial status predict political participation (Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995). ...