Thomas B Corcoran
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas B Corcoran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Corcoran |
| SIGNATURE | CORCORAN T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Street-Level Brokers
Scholarly research on urban political economy has long examined the conditions that enable city growth projects. Such accounts tend to emphasize the power of local elites, technocrats, and large corporate interests. In contrast, we know much less about the role of community leaders, active in city organizations, who broker deals with corporate partners and help win over existing communities that might otherwise oppose undesirable projects. Drawin…
The ( Cultural ) War of the Worlds
External forces always shape the social construction of ‘the local’. In this article we offer a framework for understanding how external players and strategies reconfigure the social and symbolic character of local culture for new investments and new populations. We aim not only to propose a theory of urban cultural processing by nonlocals—what we call ‘urban cultural terraforming’—but to identify pressure points for local groups to make claims o…
Public–Private Partnership
Public–private partnerships have shaped the development of geographic regions and cities in industrialized nations since at least the early eighteenth century. Today, new accords between business interests and city governments continue to shape paths for capital to flow across the globe. As industry and technology transform the way populations communicate, travel, and labor, collaboration between the state and private enterprise morph along with …
Instructional Capacity and High Performance Schools
or more than a decade researchers have been studying the design and implementation of educational reforms in states and school districts. One of the major sets of issues concerns the of these systems to achieve the goal of helping all students reach high standards of achievement. The task of formulating policy has been hampered by disagreement in both the research and policy communities about the degree to which capacity is a problem, and if it i…
Instructional Capacity and High Performance Schools
or more than a decade researchers have been studying the design and implementation of educational reforms in states and school districts. One of the major sets of issues concerns the of these systems to achieve the goal of helping all students reach high standards of achievement. The task of formulating policy has been hampered by disagreement in both the research and policy communities about the degree to which capacity is a problem, and if it i…
Instructional Capacity and High Performance Schools
or more than a decade researchers have been studying the design and implementation of educational reforms in states and school districts. One of the major sets of issues concerns the of these systems to achieve the goal of helping all students reach high standards of achievement. The task of formulating policy has been hampered by disagreement in both the research and policy communities about the degree to which capacity is a problem, and if it i…
Public–Private Partnership
Public–private partnerships have shaped the development of geographic regions and cities in industrialized nations since at least the early eighteenth century. Today, new accords between business interests and city governments continue to shape paths for capital to flow across the globe. As industry and technology transform the way populations communicate, travel, and labor, collaboration between the state and private enterprise morph along with …
The ( Cultural ) War of the Worlds
External forces always shape the social construction of ‘the local’. In this article we offer a framework for understanding how external players and strategies reconfigure the social and symbolic character of local culture for new investments and new populations. We aim not only to propose a theory of urban cultural processing by nonlocals—what we call ‘urban cultural terraforming’—but to identify pressure points for local groups to make claims o…
Street-Level Brokers
Scholarly research on urban political economy has long examined the conditions that enable city growth projects. Such accounts tend to emphasize the power of local elites, technocrats, and large corporate interests. In contrast, we know much less about the role of community leaders, active in city organizations, who broker deals with corporate partners and help win over existing communities that might otherwise oppose undesirable projects. Drawin…
Political science (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)