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Marc Doussard

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ID1474705
NAMEMarc Doussard
GIVEN NAMESMarc
FAMILY NAMEDoussard
SIGNATUREDOUSSARD M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0001-9355-9361
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS193
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7
  • When the city stopped

    Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2025

  • Planning With a Basic Income

    Marc Doussard, Kevin Quinn•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Planning…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 23

    Problem, research strategy, and findingsThe rapid growth of basic income programs in U.S. cities raises questions about the contributions of no-strings-attached cash payments to common equity planning goals. Drawing on a database of more than 100 basic income trials and interviews with 75 program designers and administrators, we evaluated basic income’s potential uses in planning. First, we analyzed evaluations of completed basic income trials, l…

  • Basic income trials and the politics of scale

    Open Access•Jurgen De Wispelaere, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Policy Studies Journal•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 43

    The growing popularity of basic income has led to extensive trials of the policy in numerous settings across the world. However, analysis of the politics of basic income, and in particular the political dynamics preceding and resulting from trial programs, lags. In response, we propose a research agenda that uses political scale to investigate where basic income trials emerge, how individual trials' design and implementation parameters vary, and …

  • Post-entrepreneurial cities? Runaway housing costs and the humanitarian turn in urban governance

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2025•References: 60

    For a generation, post-industrial US cities acted as entrepreneurs, deploying a suite of economic development policy tools to lure jobs, investment, visitors and residents. Taking New York's rejection of Amazon HQ2 as a point of departure, I argue that exponential housing cost growth has undermined the political and economic foundations of the entrepreneurial model, leading cities to simultaneously inflate housing costs and manage the ensuing cri…

  • From Universal Basic Income to Guaranteed Basic Income

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Métropolitiques•2024

  • Seeding policy

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•International Social Security…•2024•References: 4

    During the COVID‐19 pandemic, cities in the United States of America developed more that 100 basic income pilots. This article examines the heretofore hidden impact of the pandemic on the future extension of basic income programmes at the sub‐national level. While the super‐majoritarian requirements of United States federal policy making keep the possibility of national‐level basic income remote, several features of basic income, including uncond…

  • Viral cash

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 31

    During the covid-19 pandemic, basic income pilot programs spread across U.S. cities like the novel coronavirus itself. The policy of no-strings-attached cash transfers marks a potentially significant change in the development of post-austerity politics, but only if basic income programs can endure beyond their trial phase. This paper centers the phenomenon of viral cash—cash transfer programs that mutate and multiply like the coronavirus to which…

  • Building distributive populism

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Left-behind places face linked economic and political problems that must be resolved jointly. This paper examines the potential contribution of basic income programs to that goal. Consisting of regular, no-strings-attached payments to citizens, basic income programs ensure resources and stability for poor and economically precarious households who comprise a significant share of left-behind places’ populations. Advocacy for basic income emphasize…

  • University City

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2023

  • Economic and racial justice coalitions and the rise of progressive cities

    Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2023•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    Resurgent movements against inequality have returned the topic of progressive cities to the urban politics agenda. This paper documents the growth of economic and racial justice (ERJ) coalitions and assesses the key role they play in progressive politics. Where a growing body of research uses a racial capital analysis of inequality to lodge normative critiques about the problems facing cities, ERJ coalitions use racial capital analysis as a pract…

  • Urban Policy Entrepreneurship

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 44

    Why are cities acting against inequality? We attribute the growth of municipal economic policy to multi-city urban policy entrepreneurship networks. These networks combine activists who create pressure to address inequality with policy experts who supply the legislative means to do so. We illustrate the concept through the Fight for $15 campaign in Seattle and Chicago. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, participant observation and secondary doc…

  • From Capital to Capabilities

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Ozge Yenigun•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This paper investigates the potential of human development theory to provide alternatives to long-standing practical and conceptual problems in traditional economic development. We show that the capabilities approach developed by Sen and Nussbaum provides new solutions to four long-standing problems that define economic development activities focused on industrial recruitment and highly skilled professionals: (1) competition for scarce material r…

  • Sustaining the grassroots

    Brad R Fulton, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 12

    Coalitions of community organizations and labor unions have played a central role in the recent expansion of municipal legislation regarding low-wage work. To date, most studies of community-labor coalitions have focused on their successes in meeting policy goals set by organized labor. This paper shifts focus to the challenges community organizations encounter when they participate in union-led campaigns. Analyzing survey data from a national st…

  • The frontier of equity politics

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cities•2020•References: 23

  • Organizing Together

    Marc Doussard, Brad R Fulton•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 11

    Community-labor coalitions unite grassroots community organizations and hierarchical labor unions with the promise of increasing the effectiveness of each. Little is known, however, about whether and how community organizations benefit from such partnerships. We analyze survey data from the National Study of Community Organizing Organizations and field data from community-labor coalitions in Chicago to identify benefits and drawbacks for communit…

  • Devolution, disinvestment and uneven development

    Open Access•J Clark, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    In the absence of a formal industrial policy, the USA supports manufacturing industries indirectly, and with minimal coordination. The resulting system constitutes a de facto industrial policy, whose contours and mechanisms are infrequently scrutinised. In this article we analyse a rare, recent federal effort to consciously design and implement the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). We analyse to what extent regional Manufactur…

  • Which hospitals participate in community building? What medical anchors spend on community economic development

    Stephen Averill Sherman, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 5

    Place-bound anchor institutions provide unique resources and institutional capacity to community and economic development. As such, these “eds and meds” play an increasingly important role in community economic development research and practice. Positive assessments of anchors’ contributions, however, remain limited to single-site case studies of specialty hospitals and universities with extensive resources. To deepen inquiry into anchors, we use…

  • Industrial inheritances

    Max Eisenburger, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    As policy-makers and advocates seek to harness the ‘Maker movement’ for regional innovation and economic development, attention is turning to the role of regional ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ in supporting Makers’ growth potential. Through interviews with 92 Maker enterprises across three industry subsectors in two regions, the paper demonstrates how the materiality of manufacturing processes, products and end markets influences Makers’ growth tr…

  • Degraded Work

    David Wilson, Robert W Lake et al.•ARTICLE•The AAG Review of Books•2018

  • Manufacturing without the firm

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Participants in the U.S. maker movement generate market-worthy consumer goods from the bare bones of novel ideas and simple production equipment. For cities and policymakers, making thus represents the opportunity to develop new manufacturing industries and employment. For makers to transform themselves into large-volume producers, however, they must negotiate significant financing, production and distribution barriers without recourse to the cap…

  • The Maker Movement and Urban Economic Development

    Laura Wolf-Powers, Laura Wolf‐Powers et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Planning…•2017

    Problem, research strategy, and findings: The maker movement is placing small-scale manufacturing development on mayoral agendas across the United States and promises to reinvigorate production economies in central cities. To make effective policy, planners need more knowledge about the entrepreneurs at the center of this phenomenon. Here we present a qualitative investigation of urban maker economies. We draw on semistructured interviews with fi…

  • The Other Green Jobs

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Legalizing marijuana at the state level establishes via fiat a new industry. In practice, legal marijuana constitutes a large-scale test of consumption-driven economic development policies, which seek to shape industry and job growth via changes in local spending. Drawing on the critical case of Colorado, I assess the economic development outcomes and future potential of legal marijuana, and evaluate the broader applicability of consumption-drive…

  • Fortune favors the organized

    Marc Doussard, Jacob Lesniewski•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    What explains the recent success of municipal minimum wages and other city-level distributive economic reforms? Noting the emergence of income inequality as a political issue, scholars and media accounts attribute success to the current political focus on inequality. But such a perspective neglects the classic question of how windows of political opportunity generate actual reform. Drawing on fieldwork with community–labor advocacy organizations …

  • Did US regions with manufacturing design generate more production jobs in the 2000s? New evidence on innovation and regional development

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    US manufacturing policies increasingly steer resources toward the act of innovation. Emerging case-study evidence suggests that this innovation leads to manufacturing job growth. However, the case-study evidence from which this claim is assembled is incomplete and selective. Using regional-level industry-occupation data for US manufacturing sectors, we test the contribution of manufacturing innovation activities to production employment growth wi…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Building Power

    Jacob Lesniewski, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    Community organizing emerged as a coherent mode of intervention under conditions of postwar Fordism, a set of economic and political conditions that have changed substantially. The three critiques of classic organizing models, built by Saul Alinsky and subsequently adapted by others, point to the need to cross formal, informal, and conceptual boundaries. To date, little is known about whether, and to what end, organizers take up the proposals of …

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  • Reconstituting the state

    Open Access•Philip Ashton, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2016•Cited by: 54•References: 32

    In the 2000s, cities across North America began leasing existing infrastructure to global investment consortia. Previous evaluations of infrastructure leases focus on the lack of transparency of the privatisation process and the terms of the arrangements negotiated by the public sector and the private concessionaires. In this research, we argue that such approaches fall short by failing to investigate the significant repositioning of the local st…

  • Tearing the City Down

    R Weber, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2006•Cited by: 18•References: 5

    We estimate the probability that a residential building in a gentrifying neighborhood will be demolished, situating the decision within a context of consumer preferences, neighborhood change, and public policy. We perform a logit analysis of address-level data for every privately initiated demolition permit issued in three Chicago community areas between 2000 and 2003. We find that smaller, older, frame buildings with less lot coverage had a grea…

  • After Deindustrialization

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, J Peck et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Geography•2009•Cited by: 16•References: 13

    This article presents a critical commentary on the development, through restructuring, of the Chicago economy in the period since the onset of deindustrialization in the early 1980s. Adapting an innovative methodology for the measurement of labor-market inequalities over time at the metropolitan scale, the article provides an empirical analysis of the city's new mode of growth. A notable feature is an entrenched and deepening pattern of wage ineq…

  • The Rise of Wage Theft Laws

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Ahmad Gamal•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2016•Cited by: 15•References: 32

    Seeking regulatory power unavailable at the urban scale, community–labor coalitions have persuaded dozens of state legislatures to enact legislation addressing the problem of wage theft in low-wage service industries. The project of wage theft reform raises important questions about whether urban coalitions can effectively pursue their advocacy goals in State Houses. Drawing on an inventory of 255 wage theft laws proposed between 2004 and 2012, w…

  • Equity Planning Outside City Hall

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2015•Cited by: 13•References: 6

    Focusing on progressive economic development policy and the institutional form of the community–labor coalition—an alliance between labor unions and urban advocacy organizations—this article assesses the potential to scale equity planning “up” to political scales at which redistributive policy is both more effective and more likely to be enacted. I investigate when and why scaling up works through a comparison of two differently scaled campaigns …

  • Which hospitals participate in community building? What medical anchors spend on community economic development

    Stephen Averill Sherman, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 5

    Place-bound anchor institutions provide unique resources and institutional capacity to community and economic development. As such, these “eds and meds” play an increasingly important role in community economic development research and practice. Positive assessments of anchors’ contributions, however, remain limited to single-site case studies of specialty hospitals and universities with extensive resources. To deepen inquiry into anchors, we use…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Building Power

    Jacob Lesniewski, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    Community organizing emerged as a coherent mode of intervention under conditions of postwar Fordism, a set of economic and political conditions that have changed substantially. The three critiques of classic organizing models, built by Saul Alinsky and subsequently adapted by others, point to the need to cross formal, informal, and conceptual boundaries. To date, little is known about whether, and to what end, organizers take up the proposals of …

  • Urban Policy Entrepreneurship

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 44

    Why are cities acting against inequality? We attribute the growth of municipal economic policy to multi-city urban policy entrepreneurship networks. These networks combine activists who create pressure to address inequality with policy experts who supply the legislative means to do so. We illustrate the concept through the Fight for $15 campaign in Seattle and Chicago. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, participant observation and secondary doc…

  • Organizing Together

    Marc Doussard, Brad R Fulton•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 11

    Community-labor coalitions unite grassroots community organizations and hierarchical labor unions with the promise of increasing the effectiveness of each. Little is known, however, about whether and how community organizations benefit from such partnerships. We analyze survey data from the National Study of Community Organizing Organizations and field data from community-labor coalitions in Chicago to identify benefits and drawbacks for communit…

  • Industrial inheritances

    Max Eisenburger, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    As policy-makers and advocates seek to harness the ‘Maker movement’ for regional innovation and economic development, attention is turning to the role of regional ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ in supporting Makers’ growth potential. Through interviews with 92 Maker enterprises across three industry subsectors in two regions, the paper demonstrates how the materiality of manufacturing processes, products and end markets influences Makers’ growth tr…

  • Fortune favors the organized

    Marc Doussard, Jacob Lesniewski•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    What explains the recent success of municipal minimum wages and other city-level distributive economic reforms? Noting the emergence of income inequality as a political issue, scholars and media accounts attribute success to the current political focus on inequality. But such a perspective neglects the classic question of how windows of political opportunity generate actual reform. Drawing on fieldwork with community–labor advocacy organizations …

  • Economic and racial justice coalitions and the rise of progressive cities

    Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2023•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    Resurgent movements against inequality have returned the topic of progressive cities to the urban politics agenda. This paper documents the growth of economic and racial justice (ERJ) coalitions and assesses the key role they play in progressive politics. Where a growing body of research uses a racial capital analysis of inequality to lodge normative critiques about the problems facing cities, ERJ coalitions use racial capital analysis as a pract…

  • Viral cash

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 31

    During the covid-19 pandemic, basic income pilot programs spread across U.S. cities like the novel coronavirus itself. The policy of no-strings-attached cash transfers marks a potentially significant change in the development of post-austerity politics, but only if basic income programs can endure beyond their trial phase. This paper centers the phenomenon of viral cash—cash transfer programs that mutate and multiply like the coronavirus to which…

  • From Capital to Capabilities

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Ozge Yenigun•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This paper investigates the potential of human development theory to provide alternatives to long-standing practical and conceptual problems in traditional economic development. We show that the capabilities approach developed by Sen and Nussbaum provides new solutions to four long-standing problems that define economic development activities focused on industrial recruitment and highly skilled professionals: (1) competition for scarce material r…

  • Manufacturing without the firm

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Participants in the U.S. maker movement generate market-worthy consumer goods from the bare bones of novel ideas and simple production equipment. For cities and policymakers, making thus represents the opportunity to develop new manufacturing industries and employment. For makers to transform themselves into large-volume producers, however, they must negotiate significant financing, production and distribution barriers without recourse to the cap…

  • Organizing The Ordinary City

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    In New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, formal alliances between labor unions and community organizations have spurred successful workplace and policy organizing campaigns. As a result, the institutional form of the community–labor coalition is travelling to smaller, less unionized and more politically conservative cities, where the replication of established organizing strategies must contend with political, economic and institutional differences …

  • Building distributive populism

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Left-behind places face linked economic and political problems that must be resolved jointly. This paper examines the potential contribution of basic income programs to that goal. Consisting of regular, no-strings-attached payments to citizens, basic income programs ensure resources and stability for poor and economically precarious households who comprise a significant share of left-behind places’ populations. Advocacy for basic income emphasize…

  • Uneven decline

    Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    The uneven revitalisation of some North American manufacturing industries calls attention to the challenges and opportunities facing historical industry core regions. Yet policy prescriptions routinely overlook industry- and place-specific factors that enable or restrict the viability of manufacturing over time. We re-engage Markusen’s profit-cycle model of industrial evolution and dispersion, presenting updated metrics of U.S. manufacturing indu…

  • Planning With a Basic Income

    Marc Doussard, Kevin Quinn•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Planning…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 23

    Problem, research strategy, and findingsThe rapid growth of basic income programs in U.S. cities raises questions about the contributions of no-strings-attached cash payments to common equity planning goals. Drawing on a database of more than 100 basic income trials and interviews with 75 program designers and administrators, we evaluated basic income’s potential uses in planning. First, we analyzed evaluations of completed basic income trials, l…

  • Basic income trials and the politics of scale

    Open Access•Jurgen De Wispelaere, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Policy Studies Journal•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 43

    The growing popularity of basic income has led to extensive trials of the policy in numerous settings across the world. However, analysis of the politics of basic income, and in particular the political dynamics preceding and resulting from trial programs, lags. In response, we propose a research agenda that uses political scale to investigate where basic income trials emerge, how individual trials' design and implementation parameters vary, and …

  • Sustaining the grassroots

    Brad R Fulton, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 12

    Coalitions of community organizations and labor unions have played a central role in the recent expansion of municipal legislation regarding low-wage work. To date, most studies of community-labor coalitions have focused on their successes in meeting policy goals set by organized labor. This paper shifts focus to the challenges community organizations encounter when they participate in union-led campaigns. Analyzing survey data from a national st…

  • Devolution, disinvestment and uneven development

    Open Access•J Clark, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    In the absence of a formal industrial policy, the USA supports manufacturing industries indirectly, and with minimal coordination. The resulting system constitutes a de facto industrial policy, whose contours and mechanisms are infrequently scrutinised. In this article we analyse a rare, recent federal effort to consciously design and implement the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). We analyse to what extent regional Manufactur…

  • The Other Green Jobs

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Legalizing marijuana at the state level establishes via fiat a new industry. In practice, legal marijuana constitutes a large-scale test of consumption-driven economic development policies, which seek to shape industry and job growth via changes in local spending. Drawing on the critical case of Colorado, I assess the economic development outcomes and future potential of legal marijuana, and evaluate the broader applicability of consumption-drive…

  • Did US regions with manufacturing design generate more production jobs in the 2000s? New evidence on innovation and regional development

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    US manufacturing policies increasingly steer resources toward the act of innovation. Emerging case-study evidence suggests that this innovation leads to manufacturing job growth. However, the case-study evidence from which this claim is assembled is incomplete and selective. Using regional-level industry-occupation data for US manufacturing sectors, we test the contribution of manufacturing innovation activities to production employment growth wi…

  • Export Orientation and the Limits to Local Sovereignty

    Open Access•J Persky, Joseph J Persky et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    The decade 1990—2000 marked a historical turnaround for large metropolitan areas in the US. For the first time in the post-World-War-II period these metropolitan areas experienced a reduction in the local share of economic activity relative to the export share. The long-standing shift from manufacturing to services, while continuing through the decade, was no longer sufficiently large to offset the increasing export orientation of non-manufacturi…

  • Tearing the City Down

    R Weber, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2006•Cited by: 18•References: 5

    We estimate the probability that a residential building in a gentrifying neighborhood will be demolished, situating the decision within a context of consumer preferences, neighborhood change, and public policy. We perform a logit analysis of address-level data for every privately initiated demolition permit issued in three Chicago community areas between 2000 and 2003. We find that smaller, older, frame buildings with less lot coverage had a grea…

  • An Expression of Appreciation

    Open Access•R Alba, Heike Alberts et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2009

  • Export Orientation and the Limits to Local Sovereignty

    Open Access•J Persky, Joseph J Persky et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    The decade 1990—2000 marked a historical turnaround for large metropolitan areas in the US. For the first time in the post-World-War-II period these metropolitan areas experienced a reduction in the local share of economic activity relative to the export share. The long-standing shift from manufacturing to services, while continuing through the decade, was no longer sufficiently large to offset the increasing export orientation of non-manufacturi…

  • After Deindustrialization

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, J Peck et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Geography•2009•Cited by: 16•References: 13

    This article presents a critical commentary on the development, through restructuring, of the Chicago economy in the period since the onset of deindustrialization in the early 1980s. Adapting an innovative methodology for the measurement of labor-market inequalities over time at the metropolitan scale, the article provides an empirical analysis of the city's new mode of growth. A notable feature is an entrenched and deepening pattern of wage ineq…

  • The Financial Engineering of Infrastructure Privatization

    Philip Ashton, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Planning…•2012

    Problem, research strategy, and findings: Leasing government infrastructure to private investors has been proposed as a practical way to increase both public revenue and investment in aging facilities, yet questions remain regarding lease value. In particular, some recent private auction bids surpassed government's lease estimates for U.S. roads and parking systems by hundreds of millions of dollars. We argue such discrepancies are largely explai…

  • Uneven decline

    Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    The uneven revitalisation of some North American manufacturing industries calls attention to the challenges and opportunities facing historical industry core regions. Yet policy prescriptions routinely overlook industry- and place-specific factors that enable or restrict the viability of manufacturing over time. We re-engage Markusen’s profit-cycle model of industrial evolution and dispersion, presenting updated metrics of U.S. manufacturing indu…

  • Equity Planning Outside City Hall

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2015•Cited by: 13•References: 6

    Focusing on progressive economic development policy and the institutional form of the community–labor coalition—an alliance between labor unions and urban advocacy organizations—this article assesses the potential to scale equity planning “up” to political scales at which redistributive policy is both more effective and more likely to be enacted. I investigate when and why scaling up works through a comparison of two differently scaled campaigns …

  • Organizing The Ordinary City

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    In New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, formal alliances between labor unions and community organizations have spurred successful workplace and policy organizing campaigns. As a result, the institutional form of the community–labor coalition is travelling to smaller, less unionized and more politically conservative cities, where the replication of established organizing strategies must contend with political, economic and institutional differences …

  • Reconstituting the state

    Open Access•Philip Ashton, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2016•Cited by: 54•References: 32

    In the 2000s, cities across North America began leasing existing infrastructure to global investment consortia. Previous evaluations of infrastructure leases focus on the lack of transparency of the privatisation process and the terms of the arrangements negotiated by the public sector and the private concessionaires. In this research, we argue that such approaches fall short by failing to investigate the significant repositioning of the local st…

  • The Rise of Wage Theft Laws

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Ahmad Gamal•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2016•Cited by: 15•References: 32

    Seeking regulatory power unavailable at the urban scale, community–labor coalitions have persuaded dozens of state legislatures to enact legislation addressing the problem of wage theft in low-wage service industries. The project of wage theft reform raises important questions about whether urban coalitions can effectively pursue their advocacy goals in State Houses. Drawing on an inventory of 255 wage theft laws proposed between 2004 and 2012, w…

  • The Maker Movement and Urban Economic Development

    Laura Wolf-Powers, Laura Wolf‐Powers et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Planning…•2017

    Problem, research strategy, and findings: The maker movement is placing small-scale manufacturing development on mayoral agendas across the United States and promises to reinvigorate production economies in central cities. To make effective policy, planners need more knowledge about the entrepreneurs at the center of this phenomenon. Here we present a qualitative investigation of urban maker economies. We draw on semistructured interviews with fi…

  • The Other Green Jobs

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Legalizing marijuana at the state level establishes via fiat a new industry. In practice, legal marijuana constitutes a large-scale test of consumption-driven economic development policies, which seek to shape industry and job growth via changes in local spending. Drawing on the critical case of Colorado, I assess the economic development outcomes and future potential of legal marijuana, and evaluate the broader applicability of consumption-drive…

  • Fortune favors the organized

    Marc Doussard, Jacob Lesniewski•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    What explains the recent success of municipal minimum wages and other city-level distributive economic reforms? Noting the emergence of income inequality as a political issue, scholars and media accounts attribute success to the current political focus on inequality. But such a perspective neglects the classic question of how windows of political opportunity generate actual reform. Drawing on fieldwork with community–labor advocacy organizations …

  • Did US regions with manufacturing design generate more production jobs in the 2000s? New evidence on innovation and regional development

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    US manufacturing policies increasingly steer resources toward the act of innovation. Emerging case-study evidence suggests that this innovation leads to manufacturing job growth. However, the case-study evidence from which this claim is assembled is incomplete and selective. Using regional-level industry-occupation data for US manufacturing sectors, we test the contribution of manufacturing innovation activities to production employment growth wi…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Building Power

    Jacob Lesniewski, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    Community organizing emerged as a coherent mode of intervention under conditions of postwar Fordism, a set of economic and political conditions that have changed substantially. The three critiques of classic organizing models, built by Saul Alinsky and subsequently adapted by others, point to the need to cross formal, informal, and conceptual boundaries. To date, little is known about whether, and to what end, organizers take up the proposals of …

  • Degraded Work

    David Wilson, Robert W Lake et al.•ARTICLE•The AAG Review of Books•2018

  • Manufacturing without the firm

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Participants in the U.S. maker movement generate market-worthy consumer goods from the bare bones of novel ideas and simple production equipment. For cities and policymakers, making thus represents the opportunity to develop new manufacturing industries and employment. For makers to transform themselves into large-volume producers, however, they must negotiate significant financing, production and distribution barriers without recourse to the cap…

  • Devolution, disinvestment and uneven development

    Open Access•J Clark, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    In the absence of a formal industrial policy, the USA supports manufacturing industries indirectly, and with minimal coordination. The resulting system constitutes a de facto industrial policy, whose contours and mechanisms are infrequently scrutinised. In this article we analyse a rare, recent federal effort to consciously design and implement the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). We analyse to what extent regional Manufactur…

  • Which hospitals participate in community building? What medical anchors spend on community economic development

    Stephen Averill Sherman, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 5

    Place-bound anchor institutions provide unique resources and institutional capacity to community and economic development. As such, these “eds and meds” play an increasingly important role in community economic development research and practice. Positive assessments of anchors’ contributions, however, remain limited to single-site case studies of specialty hospitals and universities with extensive resources. To deepen inquiry into anchors, we use…

  • Industrial inheritances

    Max Eisenburger, Marc Doussard et al.•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    As policy-makers and advocates seek to harness the ‘Maker movement’ for regional innovation and economic development, attention is turning to the role of regional ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ in supporting Makers’ growth potential. Through interviews with 92 Maker enterprises across three industry subsectors in two regions, the paper demonstrates how the materiality of manufacturing processes, products and end markets influences Makers’ growth tr…

  • The frontier of equity politics

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cities•2020•References: 23

  • Organizing Together

    Marc Doussard, Brad R Fulton•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 11

    Community-labor coalitions unite grassroots community organizations and hierarchical labor unions with the promise of increasing the effectiveness of each. Little is known, however, about whether and how community organizations benefit from such partnerships. We analyze survey data from the National Study of Community Organizing Organizations and field data from community-labor coalitions in Chicago to identify benefits and drawbacks for communit…

  • Sustaining the grassroots

    Brad R Fulton, Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 12

    Coalitions of community organizations and labor unions have played a central role in the recent expansion of municipal legislation regarding low-wage work. To date, most studies of community-labor coalitions have focused on their successes in meeting policy goals set by organized labor. This paper shifts focus to the challenges community organizations encounter when they participate in union-led campaigns. Analyzing survey data from a national st…

  • From Capital to Capabilities

    Open Access•Marc Doussard, Ozge Yenigun•ARTICLE•Journal of Planning Education and…•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This paper investigates the potential of human development theory to provide alternatives to long-standing practical and conceptual problems in traditional economic development. We show that the capabilities approach developed by Sen and Nussbaum provides new solutions to four long-standing problems that define economic development activities focused on industrial recruitment and highly skilled professionals: (1) competition for scarce material r…

  • Building distributive populism

    Open Access•Marc Doussard•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 28

    Left-behind places face linked economic and political problems that must be resolved jointly. This paper examines the potential contribution of basic income programs to that goal. Consisting of regular, no-strings-attached payments to citizens, basic income programs ensure resources and stability for poor and economically precarious households who comprise a significant share of left-behind places’ populations. Advocacy for basic income emphasize…

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