John P Blair

Biographic Data

ID3624482
NAMEJohn P Blair
GIVEN NAMESJohn P
FAMILY NAMEBlair
SIGNATUREBLAIR J P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Building Anglo-Saxon England

    Open AccessJohn P Blair, John Blair et al.BOOKBuilding Anglo-Saxon England2018

  • An Expression of Appreciation

    Open AccessR Alba, Heike Alberts et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2009

  • Local Economic Development

    Robert A Beauregard, John P Blair et al.ARTICLEEconomic Geography1996

  • Institutions, quality competition and public service provision

    Open AccessSamuel R Staley, John P BlairARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy1995References: 13

  • Metropolitan Size and Corporate Merger Behavior

    Open AccessJohn P Blair, Carole R EndresARTICLEUrban Affairs Quarterly1991

    Firms' headquarters in larger urban areas are shown to be more active in the merger process and more likely to be predators than firms located in smaller places. The larger the metropolitan area, the stronger the tendencies. The findings are attributable to (1) the disproportionate presence of large corporations in large urban areas and (2) efficiency advantages of large metropolitan locations, which include face-to-face communications, establish…

  • Economic Development Planning as a Relay

    Open AccessROBERT PREMUS, John P BlairARTICLEReview of Policy Research1991

    This article examines the impact land effectiveness of a shift from traditional public sector‐led and old‐style business‐led approaches to local development to a more integrative and innovative planning process of broad‐based community involvement. Through a careful analysis of Dayton's economic transformation, this article explores the importance of combining public sector, university, business and grass root community interests to arrive at a r…

  • The Market for Jobs

    Open AccessJohn P Blair, Rudy H Fichtenbaum et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Quarterly1984

    A market for industrial locations has emerged in recent years. On one side of the market, cities compete with each other to attract jobs; on the other side, firms seek subsidy payments for providing jobs. These developments have been noted, but until now have not been viewed as an explicit market. This article provides evidence of the market's development and identifies factors that have stimulated the market's growth. It demonstrates that costs …

  • Leveraging Private Investment With Federal Funds

    Open AccessRichard D Bingham, John P BlairARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal1983References: 1

    The article focuses on the policy of leveraging private investment with federal funds in the U.S. Realizing that grant programs were not providing sufficient resources to have significant impact on social and economic problems, the U.S. government developed a strategy for investment of small amounts of public money to leverage large amounts of private money to create jobs that will alleviate unemployment, increase the local tax base and thus revi…

  • Urban Affairs Graduate Programs

    Open AccessRichard D Bingham, Gary T Henry et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Quarterly1981

    Ranking urban affairs graduate programs is a difficult undertaking because there is no objective or consensual measure of quality. This study utilizes three empirical measures- reputation, productivity, and quality of individual output—to rank urban affairs programs. These measures as well as an overall ranking are presented for each program. In addition, per capita productivity and quality of individual output ratings are presented to control fo…

  • Improving Local Strategies for Housing the Urban Poor

    John P BlairARTICLEHousing and Society1981

    This paper shows that regardless of whether the current Section 8 program is continued or whether an alternative program structure is adopted, housing assistance can he made more economical if there is greater reliance on the existing housing stock rather than on new construction. Greater reliance on existing housing would occur if there were a better match between local housing market conditions and housing assistance strategies. The findings ha…

  • Axiomatic versus Empirical Models in Policy Studies

    Open AccessJohn P Blair, Steven M MaserARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal1977Cited by: 1

  • Population Size and the Extent of Industrial Diversification

    Open AccessJohn P BlairARTICLEUrban Studies1976

  • The Politics of Government Pricing

    Open AccessJohn P BlairARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…1976

    Although theoretical analysis of publicly-owned enterprises is rapidly evolving into a well established body of literature, parallel empirical work is scarce. A major cause of this imbalance is the difficulty of quantifying theoretically important concepts such as political influence or political power. The purpose of this paper is to narrow the gap in the literature by statistically testing the role of political forces in determining the price s…

  • Pareto optimal growth

    Open AccessJohn P Blair, Walter ChatfieldARTICLEPublic Choice1974References: 3

  • A Review of the Filtering-Down Theory

    Open AccessJohn P BlairARTICLEUrban Affairs Quarterly1973

  • A note on the empirical nature of the taxpayer rebellion

    Open AccessJohn L Mikesell, John P BlairARTICLEPublic Choice1973