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The “Damaged” State vs. the “Willful” Nonpayer: Pay-to-Stay and the Social Construction of Damage, Harm, and Moral Responsibility in a Rent-Seeking Society

April D. Fernandes, Brittany Friedman, Gabriela Kirk
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (1) 82-105; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.04
April D. Fernandes
aAssistant professor at North Carolina State University, United States
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bAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, United States
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Gabriela Kirk
cDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, United States
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vol. 8 no. 1 82-105
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.04

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  • Published online January 1, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Fernandes, April D., Brittany Friedman, and Gabriela Kirk. 2022. “The “Damaged” State vs. the “Willful” Nonpayer: Pay-to-Stay and the Social Construction of Damage, Harm, and Moral Responsibility in a Rent-Seeking Society.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(1): 82–105. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.04. This research was funded by a grant to the University of Washington from Arnold Ventures (Alexes Harris, PI). Direct correspondence to: April D. Fernandes, at adferna2@ncsu.edu, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 1911 Building, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States; Brittany Friedman, at brittany.friedman@usc.edu, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, 851 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States; Gabriela Kirk, at gabrielakirk2022@u.northwestern.edu, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60208, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. April D. Fernandesa,
  2. Brittany Friedmanb and
  3. Gabriela Kirkc
  1. aAssistant professor at North Carolina State University, United States
  2. bAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, United States
  3. cDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, United States
  1. Correspondence authors:
    April D. Fernandes, (adferna2{at}ncsu.edu), Brittany Friedman, (brittany.friedman{at}usc.edu), Gabriela Kirk, (gabrielakirk2022{at}u.northwestern.edu)
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