Norman Walzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Walzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Walzer |
| SIGNATURE | WALZER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6915-293X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Migration of young adults in micropolitan counties
Nonmetropolitan U.S. counties have historically lagged metropolitan areas in population and employment growth. Population projections indicate that they will face a shrinking workforce in the future, although, immigration and domestic migration by young adults could help offset this trend. The number of young adults (ages 25 to 44) is projected to increase in the next several decades and thus will be a growing proportion of the workforce. However…
Community Development for Times of Crisis: Creating Caring Communities
Factors affecting retail sales in small and mid-size cities
Local public officials and community leaders in small and mid-size cities, especially those in non-metro areas, are facing major decisions regarding their economic future, especially about downtowns and retail businesses. These decisions are complex because of growing competition from internet sales and large retail centers that are undergoing changes as well due to demographic trends that are reshaping buying patterns and approaches. Understandi…
Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century
This encyclopedia is the most current and exhaustive reference available on international education. It provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of key topics, concepts, and issues, as well as in-depth studies of approximately 180 national educational systems throughout the world. Articles examine education broadly and at all levels--from primary grades through higher education, formal to informal education, country studies to global organizations.
Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century
The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition
Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for specific ways to interpret video games in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. The author shows how video games have become a powerful form of political, ethical, a…
Collective impact approaches and community development issues
Efforts to accomplish successful results from community change processes have caused researchers and practitioners to develop new approaches to engage local resources in ways that can bring about positive community development outcomes. Collective impact (CI) as an approach has been shown to lead to sustained improvements and is gaining use around the world in working on community development concerns. This volume examines the application of CI t…
Business starts in the Midwest: Potential entrepreneurial groups
Promoting business starts, as well as attracting and retaining employers, is an integral part of development efforts as local governments try to respond to the US economic recovery. Thus, targeting potential entrepreneurs and/or groups associated with business starts is important in designing and marketing development efforts. A growing literature has identified groups of likely entrepreneurs with motivations or interests in launching businesses.…
Overview of innovative measurement and evaluation issue
There is growing interest in finding ways to evaluate and measure outcomes from development projects addressing community change, especially as public and private organizations try to document posi
Measuring community development: What Have We Learned
Since the 1960s, community development organizations in the public and nonprofit sectors have become increasingly conscious of the impact of their work in light of finite financial resources and a growing range of policy concerns. This article briefly reviews the history of outcome measurement in community development organizations and describes innovative and emerging measurement practices used to improve public policy. It also outlines key ingr…
Community responses to disasters: A Foundation for Recovery
Disaster recovery programs and policies are becoming even more important with the increase in numbers and frequencies of disasters and their widespread damage. This special issue examines approaches and recovery methods that have succeeded and identifies common elements. The authors in this volume note several key ingredients including collaboration among agencies providing services to disaster victims, educating residents about potential hazards…
Overview of innovative community change programs
This Special Issue of the Journal is designed to help community development practitioners and scholars in the important roles they play -- both directly and indirectly -- to foster community betterment. The body of work articulated in this volume builds on a long history of important community development programs and efforts
The illusions of entrepreneurship
CDS at 40: The Past Leading to the Future
Community Development Society (CDS) started in 1970 in response to a need to provide opportunities for practitioners in the newly emerging community development profession to build their skills and advance professionally. unique vision of the founders was to closely link those involved in researching the discipline with those involved in the practice. strong network with local public officials charged with making the policies within which communi…
Community visioning programs: Processes and Outcomes
1. Community Visioning Initiatives Norman Walzer and Gisele F. Hamm 2. Essential Ingredients in Successful Visioning Janet Ayres 3. Structures, Approaches, Stakeholders, and Program Outcomes Norman Walzer and Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha 4. Ready to Vision? Evidence from Social Capital Assessments in Four Minnesota Towns Ryan Allen, Scott Chazdon, Barbara Radke, and Tobias Spanier 5. Framework for Teaching and Implementing Community Visioning Paul …
Editors' Comments
Returns from Redeveloping Brownfields: Preliminary Estimates
Redeveloping brownfields is achieving more recognition as a strategy in local community development projects, but relatively little is documented about the financial benefits obtained from public investments in these projects. This article examines 51 brownfield redevelopment projects in Illinois cities and estimates the financial returns to city and state investment. Dividing the projects into categories of industrial/commercial and recreational…
Involving Brownfields in Community Development: Preliminary Findings
The interest in brownfield redevelopment and reuse in cities has increased markedly as local officials have struggled with balanced growth and related issues. Previously, concerns about liability and lack of demand for property prevented local public and private investment in these areas. In recent years, however, local officials and private investors have recognized that many brownfield sites can be part of an overall reformation of the downtown…
Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development
This article examines Internet purchasing patterns of rural residents by age, income, and sex to determine the characteristics of Internet purchasers and the types of stores in rural areas likely to face the most competition. The multivariate Logit analysis of 840 rural residents in the 2000 Illinois Rural Life Panel indicates that access to the Internet at home rather than work, recent changes in financial status, size of community in which peop…
LaVonne A. Straub (1937 ‐ 2002)
The Status and Financing of Off-System Bridges
The network of off-system bridges supporting the rural economy has been a concern for a long time. Federal Highway Administration data show that 31.4% of the bridges off the federal aid system qualify for replacement and/or rehabilitation funds, the worst category under the federal bridge program. Although there is some evidence that the quality of these bridges has marginally improved in recent years, the sheer number of deficient bridges in rur…
Federal Aid and Rural County Highway Spending: A Review of the 1980
The Reagan/Bush Administrations cut back federal support for state and local governments during the 1980s, causing total real resources available to finance local roads and bridges to increase very slowly between 1977 and 1989. The effect of federal aid on spending for infrastructure has been subject to debate for many years. Some studies have indicated that federal aid is stimulative, while others report that federal aid substitutes for local re…
The Size Efficiency of Rural Governments: The Case of Low-Volume Rural Roads
The deterioration of the supply of public infrastructure throughout the United States has been found to be accelerating. The reason most often cited for the increasing rates of deterioration is the lack of available funding, or fiscal stress, present in many local governments. A popular short-term solution to fiscal stress is to defer infrastructure repairs and/or replacement programs. This is particularly true in rural areas where a declining ag…
Economies of Size and Scope in Rural Low-Volume Roads
Evidence on cost savings from reorganizing township low-volume, rural-road systems into larger units is presented in the study of technical efficiencies in producing local government services. Data are from a sample of midwestern townships. Heterogeneity of surface types is accounted for by specifying a multiple output translog cost function. Examination of economies of size suggest that cost savings could be realized by reorganizing townships in…
Factors affecting property tax reliance: Additional evidence
Collective impact approaches and community development issues
Efforts to accomplish successful results from community change processes have caused researchers and practitioners to develop new approaches to engage local resources in ways that can bring about positive community development outcomes. Collective impact (CI) as an approach has been shown to lead to sustained improvements and is gaining use around the world in working on community development concerns. This volume examines the application of CI t…
Community visioning programs: Processes and Outcomes
1. Community Visioning Initiatives Norman Walzer and Gisele F. Hamm 2. Essential Ingredients in Successful Visioning Janet Ayres 3. Structures, Approaches, Stakeholders, and Program Outcomes Norman Walzer and Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha 4. Ready to Vision? Evidence from Social Capital Assessments in Four Minnesota Towns Ryan Allen, Scott Chazdon, Barbara Radke, and Tobias Spanier 5. Framework for Teaching and Implementing Community Visioning Paul …
Workers' Compensation, Job Hazards, and Wages
Competitive theory implies that compensating wage differentials will be paid to workers in hazardous employment, but only to the extent that employees are liable for risk. This prediction suggests that previous estimates of wage-risk premiums may be biased as a result of the failure to control for variations in workers' compensation benefits across states. The authors of this paper test an empirical model of compensating wage differentials that i…
Overview of innovative community change programs
This Special Issue of the Journal is designed to help community development practitioners and scholars in the important roles they play -- both directly and indirectly -- to foster community betterment. The body of work articulated in this volume builds on a long history of important community development programs and efforts
CDS at 40: The Past Leading to the Future
Community Development Society (CDS) started in 1970 in response to a need to provide opportunities for practitioners in the newly emerging community development profession to build their skills and advance professionally. unique vision of the founders was to closely link those involved in researching the discipline with those involved in the practice. strong network with local public officials charged with making the policies within which communi…
The Size Efficiency of Rural Governments: The Case of Low-Volume Rural Roads
The deterioration of the supply of public infrastructure throughout the United States has been found to be accelerating. The reason most often cited for the increasing rates of deterioration is the lack of available funding, or fiscal stress, present in many local governments. A popular short-term solution to fiscal stress is to defer infrastructure repairs and/or replacement programs. This is particularly true in rural areas where a declining ag…
Measuring community development: What Have We Learned
Since the 1960s, community development organizations in the public and nonprofit sectors have become increasingly conscious of the impact of their work in light of finite financial resources and a growing range of policy concerns. This article briefly reviews the history of outcome measurement in community development organizations and describes innovative and emerging measurement practices used to improve public policy. It also outlines key ingr…
Factors affecting retail sales in small and mid-size cities
Local public officials and community leaders in small and mid-size cities, especially those in non-metro areas, are facing major decisions regarding their economic future, especially about downtowns and retail businesses. These decisions are complex because of growing competition from internet sales and large retail centers that are undergoing changes as well due to demographic trends that are reshaping buying patterns and approaches. Understandi…
Community responses to disasters: A Foundation for Recovery
Disaster recovery programs and policies are becoming even more important with the increase in numbers and frequencies of disasters and their widespread damage. This special issue examines approaches and recovery methods that have succeeded and identifies common elements. The authors in this volume note several key ingredients including collaboration among agencies providing services to disaster victims, educating residents about potential hazards…
The illusions of entrepreneurship
Business starts in the Midwest: Potential entrepreneurial groups
Promoting business starts, as well as attracting and retaining employers, is an integral part of development efforts as local governments try to respond to the US economic recovery. Thus, targeting potential entrepreneurs and/or groups associated with business starts is important in designing and marketing development efforts. A growing literature has identified groups of likely entrepreneurs with motivations or interests in launching businesses.…
Factors affecting property tax reliance: Additional evidence
Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development
This article examines Internet purchasing patterns of rural residents by age, income, and sex to determine the characteristics of Internet purchasers and the types of stores in rural areas likely to face the most competition. The multivariate Logit analysis of 840 rural residents in the 2000 Illinois Rural Life Panel indicates that access to the Internet at home rather than work, recent changes in financial status, size of community in which peop…
Economies of Scale and Municipal Police Services: The Illinois Experience
EMPIRICAL analyses in the private sector have disclosed significant economies of scale (e.g., Adams (1967) and Johnston (1960)). Interest naturally turned to an examination of the possibilities for scale economies in the public sector. This issue is particularly important as local governments encounter greater difficulties in financing the services demanded by their residents.1 The increased financial pressures arise from a larger number of resid…
State Finance and Taxing Policies
The states have moved through three distinct periods in finance and taxing policies. First, until the 1930s, states dominated over congress in taxing powers. During the Great Depression, many programs were initiated which involved the states in close grant‐in‐aid arrangements with the federal government. A second period was initiated during the 1960s. when the number of federally‐funded grants exploded. States were soon involved in a variety of n…
Workers' Compensation, Job Hazards, and Wages
Competitive theory implies that compensating wage differentials will be paid to workers in hazardous employment, but only to the extent that employees are liable for risk. This prediction suggests that previous estimates of wage-risk premiums may be biased as a result of the failure to control for variations in workers' compensation benefits across states. The authors of this paper test an empirical model of compensating wage differentials that i…
State and Local Taxation: Review of Current State of Art
Factors affecting property tax reliance: Additional evidence
Economies of Size and Scope in Rural Low-Volume Roads
Evidence on cost savings from reorganizing township low-volume, rural-road systems into larger units is presented in the study of technical efficiencies in producing local government services. Data are from a sample of midwestern townships. Heterogeneity of surface types is accounted for by specifying a multiple output translog cost function. Examination of economies of size suggest that cost savings could be realized by reorganizing townships in…
The Size Efficiency of Rural Governments: The Case of Low-Volume Rural Roads
The deterioration of the supply of public infrastructure throughout the United States has been found to be accelerating. The reason most often cited for the increasing rates of deterioration is the lack of available funding, or fiscal stress, present in many local governments. A popular short-term solution to fiscal stress is to defer infrastructure repairs and/or replacement programs. This is particularly true in rural areas where a declining ag…
Federal Aid and Rural County Highway Spending: A Review of the 1980
The Reagan/Bush Administrations cut back federal support for state and local governments during the 1980s, causing total real resources available to finance local roads and bridges to increase very slowly between 1977 and 1989. The effect of federal aid on spending for infrastructure has been subject to debate for many years. Some studies have indicated that federal aid is stimulative, while others report that federal aid substitutes for local re…
The Status and Financing of Off-System Bridges
The network of off-system bridges supporting the rural economy has been a concern for a long time. Federal Highway Administration data show that 31.4% of the bridges off the federal aid system qualify for replacement and/or rehabilitation funds, the worst category under the federal bridge program. Although there is some evidence that the quality of these bridges has marginally improved in recent years, the sheer number of deficient bridges in rur…
LaVonne A. Straub (1937 ‐ 2002)
Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development
This article examines Internet purchasing patterns of rural residents by age, income, and sex to determine the characteristics of Internet purchasers and the types of stores in rural areas likely to face the most competition. The multivariate Logit analysis of 840 rural residents in the 2000 Illinois Rural Life Panel indicates that access to the Internet at home rather than work, recent changes in financial status, size of community in which peop…
Involving Brownfields in Community Development: Preliminary Findings
The interest in brownfield redevelopment and reuse in cities has increased markedly as local officials have struggled with balanced growth and related issues. Previously, concerns about liability and lack of demand for property prevented local public and private investment in these areas. In recent years, however, local officials and private investors have recognized that many brownfield sites can be part of an overall reformation of the downtown…
Editors' Comments
Returns from Redeveloping Brownfields: Preliminary Estimates
Redeveloping brownfields is achieving more recognition as a strategy in local community development projects, but relatively little is documented about the financial benefits obtained from public investments in these projects. This article examines 51 brownfield redevelopment projects in Illinois cities and estimates the financial returns to city and state investment. Dividing the projects into categories of industrial/commercial and recreational…
CDS at 40: The Past Leading to the Future
Community Development Society (CDS) started in 1970 in response to a need to provide opportunities for practitioners in the newly emerging community development profession to build their skills and advance professionally. unique vision of the founders was to closely link those involved in researching the discipline with those involved in the practice. strong network with local public officials charged with making the policies within which communi…
Community visioning programs: Processes and Outcomes
1. Community Visioning Initiatives Norman Walzer and Gisele F. Hamm 2. Essential Ingredients in Successful Visioning Janet Ayres 3. Structures, Approaches, Stakeholders, and Program Outcomes Norman Walzer and Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha 4. Ready to Vision? Evidence from Social Capital Assessments in Four Minnesota Towns Ryan Allen, Scott Chazdon, Barbara Radke, and Tobias Spanier 5. Framework for Teaching and Implementing Community Visioning Paul …
The illusions of entrepreneurship
Community responses to disasters: A Foundation for Recovery
Disaster recovery programs and policies are becoming even more important with the increase in numbers and frequencies of disasters and their widespread damage. This special issue examines approaches and recovery methods that have succeeded and identifies common elements. The authors in this volume note several key ingredients including collaboration among agencies providing services to disaster victims, educating residents about potential hazards…
Overview of innovative community change programs
This Special Issue of the Journal is designed to help community development practitioners and scholars in the important roles they play -- both directly and indirectly -- to foster community betterment. The body of work articulated in this volume builds on a long history of important community development programs and efforts
Business starts in the Midwest: Potential entrepreneurial groups
Promoting business starts, as well as attracting and retaining employers, is an integral part of development efforts as local governments try to respond to the US economic recovery. Thus, targeting potential entrepreneurs and/or groups associated with business starts is important in designing and marketing development efforts. A growing literature has identified groups of likely entrepreneurs with motivations or interests in launching businesses.…
Overview of innovative measurement and evaluation issue
There is growing interest in finding ways to evaluate and measure outcomes from development projects addressing community change, especially as public and private organizations try to document posi
Measuring community development: What Have We Learned
Since the 1960s, community development organizations in the public and nonprofit sectors have become increasingly conscious of the impact of their work in light of finite financial resources and a growing range of policy concerns. This article briefly reviews the history of outcome measurement in community development organizations and describes innovative and emerging measurement practices used to improve public policy. It also outlines key ingr…
Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century
This encyclopedia is the most current and exhaustive reference available on international education. It provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of key topics, concepts, and issues, as well as in-depth studies of approximately 180 national educational systems throughout the world. Articles examine education broadly and at all levels--from primary grades through higher education, formal to informal education, country studies to global organizations.
Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century
The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition
Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for specific ways to interpret video games in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. The author shows how video games have become a powerful form of political, ethical, a…
Economics (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Business (16 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Finance (10 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Community development (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works)