Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place

Swanstrom, Todd; and, Peter Dreier; Mollenkopf, John

doi:10.1002/9780470752814.ch20

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“…Improving knowledge of suburban poverty is important because neighborhood poverty heightens exposure to disease and illness, increases crime rates, impedes educational development, and leads to family disruptions (Corcoran, 1995; Krivo and Peterson, 1996; Collins and Williams, 1999). Even if advantaged in some ways compared to central cities, poor suburbs may also have distinct disadvantages in aging housing stocks, fewer community anchors like hospitals, universities, and businesses that help stabilize communities, and distance from social services provided by big cities (Lucy and Phillips, 2000; Swanstrom, Dreier, and Mollenkopf, 2002). The result may be a more isolated poor population in some suburban neighborhoods than in other poor places.…”

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Suburban Neighborhood Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas in 2000

Holliday

Dwyer

2009

City & Community

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Suburban areas have become more diverse and stratified in the United States, with a particularly striking increase in poverty, challenging theories that conceptualize poverty predominantly as a central city phenomenon. Little scholarly work has examined suburban poverty, however, and the small existing literature focuses primarily on inner-ring suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest and relies too much on the concentric zone model of metropolitan development. We use Census 2000 summary data to examine the prevalence and form, characteristics, and determinants of suburban poverty at the neighborhood and metropolitan levels across the entire country. We draw on more sophisticated ecological and place stratification perspectives and argue that suburban poverty manifests in more varied forms than the typical model and diverges in crucial respects from central city poverty. Our results identify a particularly distinctive racial profile for suburban poverty, associated especially with Hispanic residential location, with implications for trends in racial segregation as well.

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Suburban Neighborhood Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas in 2000

Holliday

Dwyer

2009

City & Community

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“…These differences were due to culturallinguistic and socioeconomic factors. 4 On the other hand, these suburban municipalities were wealthier and more socially homogeneous than the central city (Drouilly and Gagnon, 2004) which led, as in other cases, to a minor compromise between economic classes (Swanstrom et al, 2002). In the case of Montreal and Longueuil, a majority of the suburban municipalities that refused mergers were Englishspeaking (considered to be a linguistic minority).…”

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Exploring the Metropolitan Trap: The Case of Montreal

Tomàs

2011

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article analyses the normative dimension of metropolitan governance in the case of Montreal. According to the main schools of thought (the reform school, the public choice school, new regionalism and the rescaling approach), there is an ideal scale at which to achieve specific goals such as equality, efficiency, democracy and economic competitiveness. These ideologically oriented conceptions of metropolitan governance are assumed by actors and used as symbolic resources to build their own strategies, i.e. to support or contest institutional reforms — what we call the metropolitan trap. The case of Montreal, which underwent two successive institutional reforms between 2000 and 2006, provides empirical evidence for this idea. Our analysis reveals that the Government of Quebec and local elected councils of Greater Montreal are trapped by these normative conceptions, especially the old regionalisms. However, scalar strategies do not compete equally, as the institutional context legitimates specific approaches to metropolitan governance. Résumé Cet article analyse la dimension normative de la gouvernance métropolitaine dans le cas de Montréal. Les principales écoles théoriques (de la réforme, des choix publics, du nouveau régionalisme et du redimensionnement) estiment qu'il existe un échelon idéal pour la réussite d'objectifs particuliers, tels que l'égalité, l'efficacité, la démocratie et la compétitivitééconomique. Orientées idéologiquement, ces conceptions de la gouvernance métropolitaine servent de ressources symboliques aux acteurs qui les adoptent afin de bâtir leurs propres stratégies, pour ou contre les réformes institutionnelles, d'où ce qui est appelé ici le ‘piège métropolitain’. À cet égard, Montréal, qui a connu deux réformes institutionnelles successives entre 2000 et 2006, apporte des éléments empiriques. L'analyse révèle que le gouvernement du Québec et les conseils d'élus locaux qui administrent le Grand Montréal sont piégés par ces conceptions normatives, notamment par les anciens régionalismes. Par ailleurs, les stratégies d'échelle ne rivalisent pas sur un pied d'égalité puisque le contexte institutionnel ne légitime que certaines approches de gouvernance métropolitaine.

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“…Competition among local governments forces local bureaucracies to operate efficiently (Schneider 1989). Meanwhile, some other scholars argue that interjurisdictional competition pressed local governments to promote and protect the uneven distribution of population groups and scarce resources (Hill 1974;Swanstrom, Dreier, and Mollenkopf 2002). Therefore, many jurisdictions have introduced zoning and other development controls to price out lower-and middle-income families.…”

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Interjurisdictional Competition and Intracity Fiscal Disparity across Chinese Prefectural Cities

Chen

2016

Governance

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Fierce competition among county‐level governments has substantially increased disparities in public service provision and housing markets across urban China. The role of the changing intracity administrative structure deserves scholarly, attention in this process. Building on an interdisciplinary literature of public choice and cadre promotion theory, we propose that interjurisdictional competition enlarges the intracity fiscal disparity under China's transitional administrative and fiscal systems. Results from fixed‐effect panel data modeling confirm that cities with higher level of interjurisdictional competition are associated with higher intracity fiscal disparity. This study demonstrates how transition and decentralization of the centralized fiscal system have long‐term, intended and unintended, impacts on fiscal inequality and urban stratification. With continuous urban sprawl, jurisdictional annexation, and large‐scale urban‐to‐rural migration, our study suggests that policies attempting to equalize public service distribution within cities need to consider the administrative structure at the local and regional levels.

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Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Suburban Neighborhood Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas in 2000

Suburban Neighborhood Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas in 2000

Exploring the Metropolitan Trap: The Case of Montreal

Interjurisdictional Competition and Intracity Fiscal Disparity across Chinese Prefectural Cities

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