Mary Sprague
Biographic Data
| ID | 4396098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Sprague |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprague |
| SIGNATURE | SPRAGUE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7241-3080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Productive gentrification in the Mile-Ex neighbourhood of Montreal, Canada
The Mile-Ex district of Montreal, Canada – an inner-city manufacturing cluster – is experiencing an influx of new knowledge-based firms, which in addition to residential developments threatens to displace current manufacturing firms. This study examines the competition over industrial space and how state strategies, particularly at the scale of the City, are enabling this trend. Drawing on interviews with local stakeholders and planners, a review…
Reducing Local Capacity Bias in Government Grantsmanship
Local governments with more fiscal and administrative resources are at an advantage for obtaining numerous intergovernmental grants. Although many studies have examined the impact of this local capacity bias on grant getting, there has been minimal research on how grant programs could reduce it. We evaluate the effectiveness of two actions that federal and state grant programs have taken to decrease local capacity bias for economically disadvanta…
The Effects of Measurement and Methods Decisions on Committee Preference Outlier Results
Studies of outlying committee preferences have been conducted with different preference measures and methodological approaches and have generated conflicting results. To assess the effects of these study design differences, I use multiple methodological approaches to examine committee-floor differences with jurisdiction-specific interest group data during a longer time period than earlier studies. After comparing results across methods, I compare…
The Effects of Measurement and Methods Decisions on Committee Preference Outlier Results
Studies of outlying committee preferences have been conducted with different preference measures and methodological approaches and have generated conflicting results. To assess the effects of these study design differences, I use multiple methodological approaches to examine committee-floor differences with jurisdiction-specific interest group data during a longer time period than earlier studies. After comparing results across methods, I compare…
Reducing Local Capacity Bias in Government Grantsmanship
Local governments with more fiscal and administrative resources are at an advantage for obtaining numerous intergovernmental grants. Although many studies have examined the impact of this local capacity bias on grant getting, there has been minimal research on how grant programs could reduce it. We evaluate the effectiveness of two actions that federal and state grant programs have taken to decrease local capacity bias for economically disadvanta…
The Effects of Measurement and Methods Decisions on Committee Preference Outlier Results
Studies of outlying committee preferences have been conducted with different preference measures and methodological approaches and have generated conflicting results. To assess the effects of these study design differences, I use multiple methodological approaches to examine committee-floor differences with jurisdiction-specific interest group data during a longer time period than earlier studies. After comparing results across methods, I compare…
Reducing Local Capacity Bias in Government Grantsmanship
Local governments with more fiscal and administrative resources are at an advantage for obtaining numerous intergovernmental grants. Although many studies have examined the impact of this local capacity bias on grant getting, there has been minimal research on how grant programs could reduce it. We evaluate the effectiveness of two actions that federal and state grant programs have taken to decrease local capacity bias for economically disadvanta…
Productive gentrification in the Mile-Ex neighbourhood of Montreal, Canada
The Mile-Ex district of Montreal, Canada – an inner-city manufacturing cluster – is experiencing an influx of new knowledge-based firms, which in addition to residential developments threatens to displace current manufacturing firms. This study examines the competition over industrial space and how state strategies, particularly at the scale of the City, are enabling this trend. Drawing on interviews with local stakeholders and planners, a review…
Economics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Block grant (1 work) · Competition (biology) (1 work) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 work) · Disadvantaged (1 work) · Econometrics (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work)