Political Culture and State Development Policy

Boeckelman, Keith

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“…Oneanalysis was run for all economic development incentives together, and a second was pjerformed for techniques by categwy, as identified in the ICMA survey.^ Factor analysis was chosen over other "clustering" techniques, such as cltister analysis, because variables rather than cas^ were being grouped, and multidimensional scaling, due to the binary nature of the data. Further, this procedure has been employed successfully in other analyses examining clusters of economic development techniques (Rubin, 1986;Boeckelman, 1991;Fieischmann, etal, 1992).…”

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“…What these studies have in common is the use of typologies based on infcxmed reascming without empirical verification. Recent typologies of state-level eccHiomic development initiatives pjresented by Hanson and Berkman (1991) and Boeckelman (1991) do include empirical analysis. In the former, four categories of techniques-coital subsidies, enhancements to retum on capital investments, oper^ing subsidies, and enhancements to retum on operating outlays-were identified, based cai theory.…”

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Categories of Local Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis

Reese

1993

Policy Studies Journal

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In examining local economic development incentives, scholars have found it useful to employ typologies of development practices. Such typologies have been based on assumptions that techniques reflect functional categories, such as marketing and financial incentives, or can be organized by the nature of costs and benefits, or by the nature of incentive goals. While useful heuristic devices, little effort has been made to test these typologies empirically. This research note provides an empirically based typology of local economic development incentives, using data from 967 cities collected by the International City Management Association.

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Categories of Local Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis

Reese

1993

Policy Studies Journal

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“…While at the federal level, researchers tend to view the political culture as either elitist or pluralist, in state level research on economic development policies, three political subcultures (moralistic, individualistic, and traditional) have been identified (Boeckelman, 1991;Elazar, 1970;Hanson, 1991). Political institutions and policies vary according to the particular subculture which is dominant in a state or community (Hanson, 1991).…”

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“…Political institutions and policies vary according to the particular subculture which is dominant in a state or community (Hanson, 1991). A firm operating in a moralistic political subculture can expect policies to conform to conceptions of the public interest, and may find it more difficult to promote a clearly self-interested policy (although policies which focus on more long-term and clearly community-interested results, such as good jobs, will be important in such communities) (Boeckelman, 1991). A problem in moralistic communities may well be that firms have found that, in times of economic downturn, they do better politically by refusing to respond to social concerns (Vogel, 1989).…”

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“…The traditionalist subculture is characterized by a hierarchical, elite-based social order (Boeckelman, 1991;Elazar, 1970;Hanson, 1991), of which business people may or may not be a part. With absentee ownership of firms, it is less likely that longterm relationships among members of the elite will have been established.…”

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The New Federalism: Implications for the Legitimacy of Corporate Political Activity

Christensen¹

1997

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Abstract:The new push to move political issue activity from the federal to the state and local levels—a new New Federalism—has implications for the ethical and political legitimacy of business political activity. While business political activity at the federal level may be both less costly and less risky than when action shifts to states or localities, at the state or local level it is likely to be more visible, and individual firms may be perceived to have more power. Increased corporate power raises questions about the legitimacy of firm involvement in the political process at the state and local levels. The issue of legitimacy is viewed in the context of the literature on political subcultures being used to study state economic development.

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Cultural and Institutional Differences at the National and Regional Levels

Yerznkyan¹

2018

IJEFM

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Culture and institutions are two related phenomena contributing to economic performance. Culture is transmitted via teaching and imitation, while institutions, especially informal ones, come from socially transformed information and as such they are close to culture. The purpose of this paper is to examine the cultural and institutional issues of economic development with emphasis on their differences which may play a key role in understanding the very nature of socioeconomic development. In a paper, the influence of culture and institutions on the socioeconomic development in relation to the stationary (developed) economy as well as to the non-stationary (developing, transitional) economy is discussed. In addition, varieties of economic systems are considered. Main conclusions: (1) National specificity is superimposed on genetics: on the whole, Western civilizations with their inherent two-valued logic of thinking and the dominance of open access orders in society are more prone to economic exchanges-transactions, while Eastern civilizations, with their multi-valued logic and limited access orders, on the contrary, are more prone to social exchange processes-interactions. (2) The restructuring of the world in American terms is ontologically meaningless and conceptually erroneous, because of universality of the requirement of an inordinate consideration of national characteristics-taking into account that even in the USA the coexistence of heterogeneous political subcultures is a reality that cannot be ignored. (3) The relevance of culture and institutions are of particular importance in reforming the economy. As shows the Russian reforms, political factors, with uncritical import of formal institutions, rather than economic ones played a significantly greater role in changing its trajectory of development.

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Political Culture and State Development Policy

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Categories of Local Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis

Categories of Local Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis

The New Federalism: Implications for the Legitimacy of Corporate Political Activity

Cultural and Institutional Differences at the National and Regional Levels

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