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Economic Development: Political Economy and Politics
Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. 1998. "The Intergovernmental Context of Local Economic Development." State and Local Government Review 30(3) 150-64.

Anton, Thomas J. 1989. "Exploring the Politics of State Economic Development Policy." Economic Development Quarterly 3(4) 339-46.

Black, Dan A. and William H. Hoyt. 1989. "Bidding for Firms." American Economic Review 79(5) 1249-56.

Blair, John P., Rudy H. Fichtenbaum, and JAmes A. Swaney. 1984. "The Market for Jobs: Locational Decisions and the Competition for Economic Development." Urban Affairs Quarterly 20(1) 64-77.

Blankart, Charles B. 2002. "A Public Choice View of Tax Competition." Public Finance Review 30(5) 366-76.

Bowman, Ann O'M., and Michael A. Pagano. 1992. City intervention: An analysis of the public capital mobilization process. Urban Affairs Quarterly, 27, 356-374.

Boyne, George A. 1996. "Compeitition and Local Government: A Public Choice Perspective." Urban Studies 33 703-21.

Brace, Paul, Youssef Cohen, Virginia Gray, and David Lowery. 1989. How much do interest groups influence state economic growth? American Political Science Review, 83, 1297-1308.

Brace, Paul. 1988. The political economy of collective action: The case of American states. Polity, 20, 648-664.

Brace, Paul. 1991. the changing context of state political economy. Journal of Politics, 53, 297-317.

Brace, Paul. 2002. Mapping economic development policy change in the American states. Review of Policy Research, 19, 161-178.

Dewar, Margaret E. 1998. Why do state and local economic development programs cause so little economic development. Economic Development Quarterly, 12, 68-87.

Eflin, James, and James Wysong. 1990. Dynamics of management and planning policy. Geographical Review, 80, 141-154.

Elkins, Stephen L. 1982. "Market and Politics in Liberal Democracy." Ethics 92:720-732.

Ellis, Stephen and Cynthia Rogers. 2000. Local economic development as a prisoners' dilemma: The role of business climate. Review of Regional Studies, 30, 315-330.

Feiock, Richard C. 1989. The adoption of economic development policies by state and local governments: A review. Economic Development Quarterly, 3, 266-270.

Feiock, Richard C. 2002. "A Quasi-Market Framework for Development Competition." Journal of Urban Affairs 24:123-42.

Field, Thomas F. 2003. "Tax Competition in Europe and America." Tax Notes Int'l, March 31, 2003 p. 1235.

Garcia-Mila, Teresa and Therese J. McGuire. 2001. "Tax Incentives and the City." Brookings-Wharton Conference on Urban Affairs, Washington, DC, October 25-26, 2001.

Glaeser, Edward L. 2001. "The Economics of Location-Based Tax Incentives." HIER Discussion Paper No. 1932. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute of Economic Research.

Grady, Dennis O. 1985. "Economic Development and Administrative Power Theory: A Comparative Analysis of State Development Agencies." Policy Studies Review 8:322-39.

Gray, Virginia, and David Lowery. 1988. Interest group politics and economic growth in the U.S. states. American Political Science Review, 82, 109-131.

Hill, Edward W. 1998. "Principles for Rethinking the Federal Government's Role in Economic Development." Economic Development Quarterly 12: 299-312.

Hinnant, Charles C. 1995. "Nonprofit Organizations as Inter-regional Actors: Lessons from Southern Growth." Policy Studies Review 14:225-234.

Hirschman, Albert O. 1982. Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble? Journal of Economic Literature, 20, 1463-1484.

Keating, Michael. 1993. The politics of economic development: Political changes and local development policies in the United States, Britain, and France. Urban Affairs Quarterly, 28, 373-396.

Kenyon, Daphne A. 1997. Theories of interjurisdictional competition. New England Economic Review, March/April, 13-35.

Kenyon (1997): Lit review of interjurisdictional competition - definitions
Excerpt: Kenyon reviews theories of interjurisdictional competition (IJC). First, Kenyon discusses issues underlying the discussion of the theories, including some definitions. This section of the notes deals with her discussion of these issues. Her discussion ...
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Kenyon (1997): Lit review of interjurisdictional competition - theories
Excerpt: Definitions and other foundational issues are summarized elsewhere. Kenyon reviews six theories that "give a flavor of the range" of existing theories, starting with Tiebout (1956) The classic voting-with-your-feet model....
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Eisinger (1988): Chap 6 Notes
Excerpt: 6. Supply-side incentives to development: Business climate policies This chapter begins the discussion of state and local economic develpment policies. This chapter specifically focuses on business climate policies that don't have any particular substa...
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Kenyon, Daphne A., and John Kincaid. 1991. Competition among States and Local Governments. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Lindblom, Charles E. 1982. "The Market as Prison." Journal of Politics 44(2) 324-36.

Loveridge, Scott. 1996. On the continuing popularity of industrial recruitment. Economic Development Quarterly, 10, 151-158.

Molotch, Harvey. 1976. The city as growth machine: Toward a poltical economy of place. American Journal of Sociology, 82, 309-332.

Oates, Wallce E. , and Robert M. Schwab. 1988. "Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing?" Journal of Public Economics 35:333-354.

Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Olson, Mancur. 1983. “The Political Economy of Comparative Growth Rates.” In The Political Economy of Growth, ed. Dennis C. Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Peretz, Paul. 1986. The market for industry: Where angels fear to tread. Policy Studies Review, 5, 624-633.

Reese, Laura A., and Raymond A. Rosenfeld. 2001. Yes, but...: Questioning the conventional wisdom about economic development. Economic Development Quarterly, 15, 299-312.

Sharp, Elaine B., and David R. Elkins. 1991. The politics of economic development policy. Economic Development Quarterly, 5, 126-139.

Sharp and Elkins (1991): Public involvement and economic development policy
Excerpt: In general, Sharp and Elkins examine the effect of pulbic involvement on local economic development policy. Specifically, they test to see if property tax stress (in terms of either tax burden or tax reliance) alters the effect of public involvement...
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Shelley, Mack C., William F. Woodman, Brian J. Relchel, and William J. Kinney. 1990. "State Legislators and Economic Development: University-Industry Relations and the Role of Government in Biotechnology." Policy Studies Review 9:455-470.

Slavin, Matthew I., and Sy Adler. 1996. Legislative constraints on gubernatorial capacity for state industrial policy: Evidence from Oregon's Regional Strategies Program. Economic Development Quarterly, 10, 224-238.

Spindler, Charles J., and John P. Forrester. 1993. Economic Development Policy: Explaining policy preferences among competing models. Urban Affairs Quarterly, 29, 28-53.

Staniland, Martin. 1985. What is Political Economy?: A Study of Social Theory and Underdevelopment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Staniland (1985): Chap 1 Notes
Excerpt: He starts with a discussion of the different meanings assigned to the term political economy. One common variant is study concerned with measuring the costs and benefits entailed by particular policies or particular structures of decision-making. In ot...
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Staniland (1985): Chap 2 Notes
Excerpt: This chapter is concerned with the history of attempts of theorists to conceptualize the relationship between the world of public power and decision-making, politics, and the world of production and distribution, economics. (p. 10) Political Economy an...
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Staniland (1985): Chap 3 Notes
Excerpt: In this chapter he discusses the "new political economy" or public choice economics. Staniland seems fairly favorably disposed toward public choice, though he has some criticisms of its application to development economics by some. He summarizes some b...
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Staniland (1985): Chap 4 Notes
Excerpt: This chapter examines politicist frameworks of political economy. Politicism Economics "in the service of power" or as "reflection of power relationships" is the theme of this chapter. The writers and models examined here have in common the view that p...
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Staniland (1985): Chap 5 Notes
Excerpt: He first asks why international political economy is important. He points out that beginning in the 1970s the rise of globalization made it important. The volume of commercial transactions between countries had grown enormously, but, more significantly...
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Staniland (1985): Chap 6 Notes
Excerpt: Sorry. I'm just not interested right now. Staniland, M. (1985). Marxism as political economy. in What is Political Economy?: A Study of Social Theory and Underdevelopment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press....
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Staniland (1985): Chap 7 Notes
Excerpt: Cut to the chase. What sort of theory of political economy is "correct"? [It makes sense] from the developmentalist's point of view, to ask for theories that are relevant. By relevant I mean theories that contain or can easily be...
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Steinacker, Annette. 2002. The use of bargaining games in local development policy. Review of Policy Research, 19, 120-153.

Stone, Clarence N. 1980. "Systemic Power in Community Decision Making: A Restatement of Stratification Theory." American Political Science Review 74(4) 978-90.

Tiebout, Charles M. 1956. "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures." Journal of Political Economy 64(5) 416-24.

U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. 1991. Interjurisdictional Tax and Policy Competition: Good or Bad for the Federal System? Washington, DC: U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

Vogel, Ronald K. 1992. Urban Political Economy. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Wilson, John Douglas. 1999. Theories of tax competition. National Tax Journal, 52, 269-304.

Wolkof, Michael J. 1992. Is economic decisionmaking rational? Urban Affairs Quarterly, 27, 340-355.

Wolman, Harold, and David Spitzley. 1996. The politics of local economic development. Economic Development Quarterly, 10, 115-150.

Wong, Kenneth K. 1988. Economic constraint and political choice in urban policymaking. American Journal of Political Science, 32, 1-18.