The Politics of "Entrepreneurial" Economic Development Policy of States in the U.S

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ID4075271
AuthorsDavid M Hart (0000-0003-2573-5495, George Mason University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume25
Issue2
Pages149-168
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Policy Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-1338.2007.00316.x
OpenAlexW2167937149
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited28

Entrepreneurial" economic development strategies at the state level in the United States, which focus on nurturing home-grown, high-growth businesses, lack immediate payoffs for politically powerful constituencies, a condition that would seem likely to limit their appeal compared to the alternative "locational" strategy of attracting large investments from elsewhere. Nonetheless, many U.S. states have added programs with entrepreneurial attributes to their economic development portfolios in recent years. This paper explores how the political obstacles to such programs have been overcome. In a few cases, an institutional innovation in the policy-making process drew in new participants who provided ideas for and support to programs with entrepreneurial attributes. More commonly, the preferences of executive branch officials, especially governors, appear to have been critical to the enactment and implementation of such programs. This finding suggests that economic development policy making may be more technocratic than is commonly believed

Appeal · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing) · State (computer science) · Technocracy · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration

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