Mark S Rosentraub
Biographic Data
| ID | 319599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark S Rosentraub |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosentraub |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENTRAUB M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A sport-anchored development district and densification: A comparative mixed effects analysis
From public goods theory to municipal capitalism: Evaluating investments in sport venues from an urban entrepreneurial perspective
Using public goods theory as a guidepost, scholars have correctly observed that subsidies for sport venues are a product of the monopolistic structure of major sport leagues. Without challenging the observation that economic rent is being extracted from cities, we utilize the municipal capitalism framework to explore the ongoing appeal of teams to cities. We note that rising levels of economic segregation required local officials to aggressively …
City of dreams: Dodger Stadium and the birth of modern Los Angeles , by Jerald Podair
Convention center follies: Politics, power, and public investment in American cities, by Heywood T. Sanders
Convention center follies: Politics, power, and public investment in American cities, by Heywood T. Sanders." Journal of Urban Affairs, 39(4), pp. 585–586
Reversing Urban Decline: Why and How Sports, Entertainment, and Culture Turn Cities into Major League Winners, Second Edition
Detroit‘s bankruptcy is the most severe example of the financial implications of the movement of wealth to the suburbs. When residents and businesses leave, central cities have a disproportionate share of most regions lower-income households. At the same time, many central cities collect less revenue as states cut financial support. So, we are lef
Planning Olympic Legacies: Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
Peer Reviewed
Hosting mega-events: A guide to the evaluation of development effects in integrated metropolitan regions
A ballpark and neighborhood change: Economic integration, a recession, and the altered demography of San Diego’s Ballpark District after eight years
Contingent Valuation and Estimates of Residents’ Support for Revitalization Plans: A Better Tool for Public Officials
Revitalization efforts often require some commitment of tax dollars for the costs of the related-development projects. Elected and appointed officials often need to gauge support for these investments if electoral approval is required. Contingent valuation surveys can be a precise tool to understand support and concern among different groups of residents. This study illustrates a refined methodology and method for looking at the value placed on a…
Major League Winners: Using Sports and Cultural Centers as Tools for Economic Development
Major League Winners: Using Sports and Cultural Centers as Tools for Economic Development chronicles the challenges overcome by civic leaders who are using the development of sports and cultural venues to help create diversified, vibrant, and attractive economic bases within their communities. Drawing on his 30 years of involvement with such projec
The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction by Robert C. Trumpbour
Tourism and economic development: Which investments produce gains for regions
Rolling the Dice? Casinos, Tax Revenues, and the Social Costs of Gaming
Advocates for casino gambling in urban centers point to the benefits from increased taxes and job opportunities. While there is evidence to sustain those claims, those who oppose legalized gambling point to the personal and social costs that result from increased numbers of addicted gamblers and believe those negative outcomes exceed the fiscal gains. Each time voters and public officials are asked to vote for or against expanded gambling centers…
Public Employee Pension Funds and Social Investments: Recent Performance and a Policy Option for Changing Investment Strategies
Public employee pension funds have emerged as major sources of investment dollars for real estate development. The size of these funds has prompted periodic, but intense, interest in diverting some portion of the resources controlled by fund managers into socially desired investments. While there is a wide range of possible investments that could be classified as socially desirable, a commitment of a portion of the available resources to the rede…
Cities, Sports, and Economic Change: A Retrospective Assessment
Through the 1970s and 1990s virtually all central cities and many larger suburban and edge communities focused downtown economic development efforts on some aspect of the hospitality sector. Associated with this trend, the building of facilities for professional sports teams has been a cornerstone of redevelopment programs for almost 30 years. Smaller cities that watched the efforts of Baltimore, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, and Phoen…
Tourism, Sports and the Centrality of Cities
(2002). Tourism, Sports and the Centrality of Cities. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 487-492
Public-Private Partnerships, Professional Sports Teams and the Protection of the Public’s Interests
Across the past 15 years, governments have invested more than $10 billion in the playing facilities used by professional sports teams to produce a set of tangible and intangible benefits. Too often, after making substantial commitments, communities receive new demands for increased subsidies. If these increasing demands are not satisfied, teams frequently move to other cities. Taxpayers and sports fans are then left with unused facilities, debt o…
Are Fragmentation and Sprawl Interlinked: North American Evidence
The association between municipal fragmentation and suburban sprawl is examined, based on a cross-sectional analysis of all U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents in the 1990s. Results reveal that this association is rather weak but significant and is sustained even when the less fragmented and more compact Canadian metropolitan areas are excluded from the analysis. The impact of residential sprawl on fragmentation …
Are Public Policies Needed to Level the Playing Field between Cities and Teams
The owners of professional sports franchises, once minor players in the manipulation of locational choices to receive subsidies, now routinely anticipate substantial incentive packages from the public sector. Teams demand and receive subsidies because many communities want teams and the leagues dictate the supply of franchises. Periodic disdain over these subsidies and resentment from communities that have lost teams has not produced public polic…
Who Benefits from the Presence of Professional Sports Teams? The Implications for Public Funding of Stadiums and Arenas
State and local governments have become increasingly responsible for financing many of the new arenas and stadiums demanded by professional sports teams (Olbermann, 1997). While local officials have a long history of efforts to attract team to their communities, the task of securing the funds needed to build the required playing facilities is relatively new. During the early years of professional sports through the 1950s, most teams played their …
Sports Wars: Suburbs and Center Cities in a Zero-Sum Game
Sports teams are integral to the battle between cities for image and economic development. Although interregional moves of teams receive more publicity, intraregional battles between center cities and their suburbs are common. The benefits created by teams affect all cities in a region. As such, providing incentives to encourage moves within a region will result in increased profits for teams and higher salaries for players. Further, if teams do …
Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?, a Reply to Robert J. Baade
(1996). Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?, a Reply to Robert J. Baade. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-31
Location Theory, a Growth Coalition, and a Regime in the Development of a Medium-Sized City
Two perspectives define the debate over a general theory of urban political economy: Location theorists suggest needed social institutions develop around the nexus of cost efficiencies; proponents of regime theory and growth coalitions look to elite coordination to explain growth and the distribution of resources. The authors contend that coalitions do develop but occur in response to favorable cost factors and other geographically and technologi…
Sport and Downtown Development Strategy If You Build It, Will Jobs Come
Many policy analysts have cautioned against public spending for professional and amateur sports. Within the last year, numerous cities have received demands from major and minor league teams for investments. These investments by the public sector can involve hundreds of millions of dollars and are usually defended by the economic impact of the facilities or teams and the economic development and revitalization which will follow. Indianapolis form…
Fiscal Pressure: The Impact of Elder Recruitment on Local Expenditures Daniel R. Mullins
Several states and cities have developed policies designed to attract retirees, hoping to position their communities as future homes for the retirement years of high-spending, low-service-consuming elders. In this article, attention is focused on issues of public expenditures. Although near-retirement-age populations seem to have lower demands for public goods, these preferences quickly change, and communities with larger proportions of postretir…
Are Fragmentation and Sprawl Interlinked: North American Evidence
The association between municipal fragmentation and suburban sprawl is examined, based on a cross-sectional analysis of all U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents in the 1990s. Results reveal that this association is rather weak but significant and is sustained even when the less fragmented and more compact Canadian metropolitan areas are excluded from the analysis. The impact of residential sprawl on fragmentation …
Sport and Downtown Development Strategy If You Build It, Will Jobs Come
Many policy analysts have cautioned against public spending for professional and amateur sports. Within the last year, numerous cities have received demands from major and minor league teams for investments. These investments by the public sector can involve hundreds of millions of dollars and are usually defended by the economic impact of the facilities or teams and the economic development and revitalization which will follow. Indianapolis form…
Cities, Sports, and Economic Change: A Retrospective Assessment
Through the 1970s and 1990s virtually all central cities and many larger suburban and edge communities focused downtown economic development efforts on some aspect of the hospitality sector. Associated with this trend, the building of facilities for professional sports teams has been a cornerstone of redevelopment programs for almost 30 years. Smaller cities that watched the efforts of Baltimore, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, and Phoen…
The Use of Surveys of Satisfaction for Evaluations
The use of surveys by cities for planning or evaluation requires attention to several problems identified by users. An assessment of the impact of these issues was made using three surveys by the city of Dallas. It was determined that surveys may be particularly valuable in evaluating service delivery patterns for services which offer delivery agents a high level of discretion. For these services, non‐whites reported higher levels of dissatisfact…
Hosting mega-events: A guide to the evaluation of development effects in integrated metropolitan regions
Tourism and economic development: Which investments produce gains for regions
Building Urban Governance: An Agenda for the 1990S
Effective and democratic local self-governance is the basic building block of the federal system. It allows citizens to make and carry out important decisions affecting their day-to-day lives. To further this capacity, an agenda is needed that calls for: a sphere of relative fiscal and policy autonomy for localities in relation to the state and national government; equality of status and broad expansion of citizen participation in formal governin…
Tourism, Sports and the Centrality of Cities
(2002). Tourism, Sports and the Centrality of Cities. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 487-492
Sports Wars: Suburbs and Center Cities in a Zero-Sum Game
Sports teams are integral to the battle between cities for image and economic development. Although interregional moves of teams receive more publicity, intraregional battles between center cities and their suburbs are common. The benefits created by teams affect all cities in a region. As such, providing incentives to encourage moves within a region will result in increased profits for teams and higher salaries for players. Further, if teams do …
Location Theory, a Growth Coalition, and a Regime in the Development of a Medium-Sized City
Two perspectives define the debate over a general theory of urban political economy: Location theorists suggest needed social institutions develop around the nexus of cost efficiencies; proponents of regime theory and growth coalitions look to elite coordination to explain growth and the distribution of resources. The authors contend that coalitions do develop but occur in response to favorable cost factors and other geographically and technologi…
Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?, a Reply to Robert J. Baade
(1996). Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?, a Reply to Robert J. Baade. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-31
Public/Private Relations and Service Delivery: The Coproduction of Personal Safety
Creating the Accessible City: Proposals for Providing Housing and Transportation for Low Income, Elderly and Disabled People
Programs and proposals for socially integrating disabled and elderly people have, traditionally, not received a great deal of support. To a limited extent this is changing. A number of social and political factors produced a unique task force in the Houston area which sought to capitalize on the depressed state of real estate and develop independent living situations for disabled people. A study detailed the extent to which large urban areas like…
Suburban City Investment in Professional Sports: Estimating the Fiscal Returns of the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers to Investor Communities
Urban Universities and the Distribution of Growth in Developed Nations
Representative Bureaucracies and Student Discipline in an Urban School District
The impact and value of a bureaucracy’s workforce that is racially representative of the clients served has been a volatile and debated subject. Looking at one policy output in a large urban school district, the administration of punishment and suspensions, this article examines the impact of racially balanced faculties on the discipline assigned to minority students.The policy importance of school discipline has been underscored by numerous stud…
Planning Olympic Legacies: Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
Peer Reviewed
Rolling the Dice? Casinos, Tax Revenues, and the Social Costs of Gaming
Advocates for casino gambling in urban centers point to the benefits from increased taxes and job opportunities. While there is evidence to sustain those claims, those who oppose legalized gambling point to the personal and social costs that result from increased numbers of addicted gamblers and believe those negative outcomes exceed the fiscal gains. Each time voters and public officials are asked to vote for or against expanded gambling centers…
Public-Private Partnerships, Professional Sports Teams and the Protection of the Public’s Interests
Across the past 15 years, governments have invested more than $10 billion in the playing facilities used by professional sports teams to produce a set of tangible and intangible benefits. Too often, after making substantial commitments, communities receive new demands for increased subsidies. If these increasing demands are not satisfied, teams frequently move to other cities. Taxpayers and sports fans are then left with unused facilities, debt o…
Information, Space, and the Control of Local Decisions
Policy scientists have long recognized that economic institutions located far from cities can manipulate resources to affect local policies and politics. Too often, however, these same students have failed to consider the implications of these same actors’ control over the production and manipulation of information used to affect economic and political issues.This article assesses the current balance of control over information between cities and…
Representing Clients in Nonprofit Decisions: Information Sources and a Representative Bureaucracy
Representing the views of clients in nonprofit agencies has emerged as an important policy question. One frequent policy response has been to increase the number of client or nontraditional board members. However, if these new board members are to change decisions, they will have to bring new information inputs to decision processes. This study explores the information environments of nonprofit decision makers and the potential implications of th…
One-Way Busing and Community Psychology: School Desegregation at Minimal Costs
Busing in black pupils seemed to have little effect on white attitudes and communities toward the pupils
Child Care Needs and Policy Issues: Implications from Texas Surveys
This article evaluates the public-private mix of child care policies in Texas with data from two surveys, each of one thousand randomly selected households. Most parents with children under 6 were satisfied with their child care programs, but substantial dissatisfaction was identified for lower-income and minority parents
Urban Policy Problems: Policy Research, the New Federalism, and the 1980s
Suburban City Investment in Professional Sports: Estimating the Fiscal Returns of the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers to Investor Communities
In Defense of Surveys as a Reliable Source of Evaluation Data
The Use of Surveys of Satisfaction for Evaluations
The use of surveys by cities for planning or evaluation requires attention to several problems identified by users. An assessment of the impact of these issues was made using three surveys by the city of Dallas. It was determined that surveys may be particularly valuable in evaluating service delivery patterns for services which offer delivery agents a high level of discretion. For these services, non‐whites reported higher levels of dissatisfact…
Representative Bureaucracies and Student Discipline in an Urban School District
The impact and value of a bureaucracy’s workforce that is racially representative of the clients served has been a volatile and debated subject. Looking at one policy output in a large urban school district, the administration of punishment and suspensions, this article examines the impact of racially balanced faculties on the discipline assigned to minority students.The policy importance of school discipline has been underscored by numerous stud…
Local Budgets and Tax Revolts: A Review of Four Scenarios
One-Way Busing and Community Psychology: School Desegregation at Minimal Costs
Busing in black pupils seemed to have little effect on white attitudes and communities toward the pupils
Child Care Needs and Policy Issues: Implications from Texas Surveys
This article evaluates the public-private mix of child care policies in Texas with data from two surveys, each of one thousand randomly selected households. Most parents with children under 6 were satisfied with their child care programs, but substantial dissatisfaction was identified for lower-income and minority parents
Public/Private Relations and Service Delivery: The Coproduction of Personal Safety
Urban Policy Problems: Policy Research, the New Federalism, and the 1980s
Coproduction, Equity, and the Distribution of Safety
In response to decreases in federal funding affecting a number of urban services and substantial reductions in other fiscal resources, municipal governments have developed several new methods to deal with their new financial constraints. One such strategy, labeled "coproduction" by researchers, has been the transfer of part or all of the costs of producing some municipal services to individuals. When citizens engage in coproduction activities, eq…
Representing Clients in Nonprofit Decisions: Information Sources and a Representative Bureaucracy
Representing the views of clients in nonprofit agencies has emerged as an important policy question. One frequent policy response has been to increase the number of client or nontraditional board members. However, if these new board members are to change decisions, they will have to bring new information inputs to decision processes. This study explores the information environments of nonprofit decision makers and the potential implications of th…
Information, Space, and the Control of Local Decisions
Policy scientists have long recognized that economic institutions located far from cities can manipulate resources to affect local policies and politics. Too often, however, these same students have failed to consider the implications of these same actors’ control over the production and manipulation of information used to affect economic and political issues.This article assesses the current balance of control over information between cities and…
Urban Universities and the Distribution of Growth in Developed Nations
A Community Services Budget: Public, Private, and Third-Sector Roles in Urban Services
Voluntary and nonprofit organizations, private firms, and public agencies provide and produce many of the same goods and services at the local level. Consequently, the adequacy, equity, and efficiency of the local public sector and the aggregate performance of the three sectors cannot be fully assessed without accounting for the effects of all sectors. A multisectoral framework or "community services budget" is proposed in this article to facilit…
Urban Policy Problems: Federal Policy and Institutional Change
Creating the Accessible City: Proposals for Providing Housing and Transportation for Low Income, Elderly and Disabled People
Programs and proposals for socially integrating disabled and elderly people have, traditionally, not received a great deal of support. To a limited extent this is changing. A number of social and political factors produced a unique task force in the Houston area which sought to capitalize on the depressed state of real estate and develop independent living situations for disabled people. A study detailed the extent to which large urban areas like…
Fiscal Pressure: The Impact of Elder Recruitment on Local Expenditures Daniel R. Mullins
Several states and cities have developed policies designed to attract retirees, hoping to position their communities as future homes for the retirement years of high-spending, low-service-consuming elders. In this article, attention is focused on issues of public expenditures. Although near-retirement-age populations seem to have lower demands for public goods, these preferences quickly change, and communities with larger proportions of postretir…
Building Urban Governance: An Agenda for the 1990S
Effective and democratic local self-governance is the basic building block of the federal system. It allows citizens to make and carry out important decisions affecting their day-to-day lives. To further this capacity, an agenda is needed that calls for: a sphere of relative fiscal and policy autonomy for localities in relation to the state and national government; equality of status and broad expansion of citizen participation in formal governin…
Sport and Downtown Development Strategy If You Build It, Will Jobs Come
Many policy analysts have cautioned against public spending for professional and amateur sports. Within the last year, numerous cities have received demands from major and minor league teams for investments. These investments by the public sector can involve hundreds of millions of dollars and are usually defended by the economic impact of the facilities or teams and the economic development and revitalization which will follow. Indianapolis form…
Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?, a Reply to Robert J. Baade
(1996). Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?, a Reply to Robert J. Baade. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-31
Location Theory, a Growth Coalition, and a Regime in the Development of a Medium-Sized City
Two perspectives define the debate over a general theory of urban political economy: Location theorists suggest needed social institutions develop around the nexus of cost efficiencies; proponents of regime theory and growth coalitions look to elite coordination to explain growth and the distribution of resources. The authors contend that coalitions do develop but occur in response to favorable cost factors and other geographically and technologi…
Sports Wars: Suburbs and Center Cities in a Zero-Sum Game
Sports teams are integral to the battle between cities for image and economic development. Although interregional moves of teams receive more publicity, intraregional battles between center cities and their suburbs are common. The benefits created by teams affect all cities in a region. As such, providing incentives to encourage moves within a region will result in increased profits for teams and higher salaries for players. Further, if teams do …
Who Benefits from the Presence of Professional Sports Teams? The Implications for Public Funding of Stadiums and Arenas
State and local governments have become increasingly responsible for financing many of the new arenas and stadiums demanded by professional sports teams (Olbermann, 1997). While local officials have a long history of efforts to attract team to their communities, the task of securing the funds needed to build the required playing facilities is relatively new. During the early years of professional sports through the 1950s, most teams played their …
Are Public Policies Needed to Level the Playing Field between Cities and Teams
The owners of professional sports franchises, once minor players in the manipulation of locational choices to receive subsidies, now routinely anticipate substantial incentive packages from the public sector. Teams demand and receive subsidies because many communities want teams and the leagues dictate the supply of franchises. Periodic disdain over these subsidies and resentment from communities that have lost teams has not produced public polic…
Public-Private Partnerships, Professional Sports Teams and the Protection of the Public’s Interests
Across the past 15 years, governments have invested more than $10 billion in the playing facilities used by professional sports teams to produce a set of tangible and intangible benefits. Too often, after making substantial commitments, communities receive new demands for increased subsidies. If these increasing demands are not satisfied, teams frequently move to other cities. Taxpayers and sports fans are then left with unused facilities, debt o…
Political science (33 works) · Business (26 works) · Economics (24 works) · Law (15 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Public Administration (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Finance (11 works) · Public relations (11 works)