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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Strategic contingency logic in the design and management of local development policy Abstract: Growth in the inventory of economic development policy instruments available to local officials outpaces theoretical explanation. In addition to the exercise of classifying the myriad of instruments, this research addresses the more fundamental need to discover some explanation or rationale for why local officials would choose one instrument or set of instruments over another in a given context. Using an analytical model based in the principles of design, the findings reveal a logic of development policy choice by examining empirically the operation and performance of development policies from a large sample of American cities. Development policy logic is found to be strategic, meaning that the composition of development policy strategies is a critical leverage in the local economy. Development policy logic is also found to be contingent, meaning that a particular development policy strategy will be effective in some situations and ineffective in others, due to various contextual factors. |
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