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Assesses forces driving governments to engage in economic development activities at the state policy level; based on data from 1983 to 1994; US. Competitive federalism, fiscal comfort, and state ideology.

This article assesses the forces that drive governments to engage in economic development activity & attempts to explain why communities adopt different strategies to bring about the common goal of economic well-being. I address this issue at the state policy level by assessing the relationship between economic development strategy & theories of policy adoption in a pooled times-series analysis using indicators of interstate competition, fiscal stress, & state ideology collected between 1983 & 1994. I find that economic development strategy choices are largely a function of interjurisdictional competition. The implications of my findings are discussed. 1 Table, 43 References. Adapted from the source document.

The validity of Peterson's policy typology, outlined in City Limits (1981), is dependent on the assumption that local government decision makers understand and order public policies in specific ways. Using confirmatory factor analysis of international survey data on mayoral public policy spending preferences from the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, the authors find that the categories of redistributive and developmental policies are more than creations of deductive reasoning. The spending preferences of mayors in selected industrial democracies conform to the structure and order as specified in Peterson's theory.

Whether and how, the racial composition of the electorate affects state policies.

El proceso de globalización de la economía ha ocasionado cambios en la localización de las empresas y en la demanda de trabajo, agravando los problemas sociales y dismi­ nuyendo los ingresos tributarios de algunas localidades de los Estados Unidos.Desde hace algunos años, los gobiernos sub­ nacionales de los Estados Unidos han toma­ do la iniciativa de diseñar y poner en marcha estrategias para enfrentar esta situación. Ini­ cialmente, el énfasis se puso en atraer empre­ sas localizadas en otras regiones, «robando» así empleo y tributos a otros estados y locali­ dades. Posteriormente, fueron imponiéndose enfoques empresariales más interesados en promover los esfuerzos económicos locales, en apoyar a las firmas e iniciativas dedicadas a las actividades de alta tecnología e investiga­ ción y desarrollo, y en mejorar el clima de ne­ gocios y la capacidad de las empresas existen­ tes para ajustar sus procesos productivos. ; The process of economic globalization has led to the transformation and decentralization of production processes. Many facto­ries are moving towards regions with lower costs of production and demand for blue collar jobs is decreasing. As a consequence, social problems in sorne communities are becoming worse and their local tax bases have been weakened.While federal government has not made any effort to alleviate those problems, subnation­al govermcnts have carried out their own strategies for over decades. In the first years, emphasis was placed on attracting firms lo­cated in other states and communities, and thus stealing their jobs and tax base. More recently; new «entrepreneurial» approaches have been attempted: they have encouraged indigenous local development initiatives, funded high technology and research and development activities, tried to improve the local business climate and strengthened the capacity of existing firms to adjust their pro­duction processes.