Politics and Economic Development: Why Governments Adopt Different Strategies to Induce Economic Growth |
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| Authors: | Martin Sail |
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| Institution: | assistant professor at California State University, Northridge and has written extensively on issues of urban politics, local political parties, economic development, and the effects of voting turnout on public policy. He recently published Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective;with Hans Geser. |
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| Abstract: | This article assesses the forces that drive governments to engage in economic development activity and attempts to explain why communities adopt different strategies to bring about the common goal of economic well-being. I address this issue at the state policy level by assessing the relationship between economic development strategy and theories of policy adoption in a pooled times series analysis using indicators of interstate competition, fiscal stress, and state ideology collected between 1983 and 1994. I find that economic development strategy choices are largely a function of interjurisdictional competition. The implications of my findings are discussed. |
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