Understanding housing stratification through a production-consumption view of diverse economies: the Romanian case

This presentation introduces CaCHE’s approaches to broad ‘literature mapping’, which are conceived as both a valuable output and an opening stage towards more focused evidence reviews. I will first reflect on two examples of literature mapping, which I have undertaken in relation to the themes of ‘policy transfer’ relative to housing and that of ‘housing taxation’ in the UK and other OECD countries. Then, I will focus on the evidence review related to policy transfer. In particular, I will consider the ways in which mapping the geographical, temporal and thematic features of a broad literature have guided the interactive approach taken in refining the research questions asked in the evidence review (e.g. in terms of interventions, outcomes, stakeholders and settings) and the ways in which we aimed to capture epistemological ‘dimensions of difference’ and develop ‘lines of arguments’. I will reflect on some unescapable methodological questions faced in this process of ‘translation’ of aims into keywords through to the analysis and the narration of findings, which have a wider currency across the social sciences