Ballot Measures for Open Space Conservation
Economic and Institutional Processes in Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agustin Leon-Moreta (0000-0002-6756-0841, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 675-708 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087419884732 |
| OpenAlex | W2985587934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 54 |
This article examines referendums for open space conservation, focusing on an assessment of their likelihood in cities. It presents data on conservation referendums, over 15 years, based on the Trust for Public Land’s LandVote® database. Economic and institutional factors of influence are explored across cities, testing whether those factors explain differences in the likelihood of referendums and their passage. One finding is that the frequency of conservation referendums varies dramatically across American cities. Additional findings, from a pooled time-series analysis, are that economic and institutional contexts of cities affect the likelihood of conservation referendums. The likelihood of referendums and their passage is further tested across alternative models to evaluate the robustness of the findings. While its central contribution is to research on local referendums, the article connects to the political market framework to identify factors influencing the likelihood of open space referendums
Ballot · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Robustness (evolution · Voting · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Land Use and Ecosystem Services
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Interlocal interactions, municipal boundaries and water and wastewater expenditure in city-regions
Land dedications as local government requirement for open space
How Policy Entrepreneurs Encourage or Hinder Urban Growth Within a Political Market
How Leadership Influences Urban Greenspace Provision
Black-Brown Coalitions in Local City Council Elections
The Interest Group Society
Toward Sustainable Communities
Economics of Agglomeration
Debt Wish
Land Trusts and Conservation Easements
Function-analysis and valuation as a tool to assess land use conflicts in planning for sustainable, multi-functional landscapes
Public policies for managing urban growth and protecting open space
Demand for Environmental Goods
Veto Players
Policy Innovation, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Adoption of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Cities
The Logic of Collective Action
Public Deliberation, Discursive Participation, and Citizen Engagement
Explaining the appearance and success of open space referenda
What Have We Learned about the Performance of Council‐Manager Government? A Review and Synthesis of the Research
Civic Science for Sustainability
Public Demand for Preserving Local Open Space
Is the Price Right? Gauging the Marketplace for Local Sustainable Policy Tools
Success and design of local referenda for land conservation
Functional Responsibilities of Municipal Governments
A Century of Municipal Reform in the United States
Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously
Municipal incorporation in the United States
Making meaningful commitments
Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States
Direct Democracy and Land Use Policy
Creative Cities, Creative Spaces and Urban Policy
The Political Economy of City Formation in California
Public involvement methods in natural resource policy making
Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Easing conservation? Conservation easements, public accountability and neoliberalism
Political Science and Prediction
Capturing Structural and Functional Diversity Through Institutional Analysis
Is Open-Space Preservation a Form of Exclusionary Zoning
Understanding Local Adoption and Implementation of Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Political Institutions and Conservation by Local Governments
Separate, Unequal, and Ignored? Interjurisdictional Competition and the Budgetary Choices of Poor and Affluent Municipalities
Cooperation without Trust
Improving Outcomes in Fiscal Federalism
Institutional Isomorphism and Public Sector Organizations
Direct Democracy
Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93
Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth
When Mayors Matter
Gridlock and Delegation in a Changing World
Regions, Globalization, Development
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance
Coalitions and Conservation
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |