The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Sage Publications; SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: December 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780761916901
Subjects: Development economics; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Sociology; Economic development projects; Economic Policy; Urban Policy; United States; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Canada; USA; Economics - Comparative; Development - Economic Development; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Case studies; Sociology - Urban; Community development; Political culture
First sentence: The cities of Coshocton, Ohio, and Romulus, Michigan, are similar in several respects.
Description: "In this work, the authors argue that there are distinct local factors that shape the environment of economic development decision making. These factors, taken together, constitute a community's local civic culture. Using survey and case study data from U.S. and Canadian cities, the authors make the case that different cultures will produce different types of economic development policies, and that local civic culture will affect the whole array of local policies.".

"The focus on economic development policy provides a window on local decision making and allows for the development of a theory, introduced by the authors, about the role of local civic culture in framing local decisions of all types. This ultimately provides a theoretical vehicle for categorizing cities and predicting policy outcomes.

The book concludes with an overview of what is known about the economic development process and highlights the questions raised about that knowledge by the analyses used here and the focus on civic cultures. New research questions are posed and new directions are raised for continued application of a local civic culture approach toward understanding urban policy processes."--BOOK JACKET.