Global economic trends and local political pressures are forcing cities into competition for
economic development. This phenomenon, well documented in the American literature, is …

Some local governments in the US have expanded their economic development policy from
the incentives and subsidies that have characterized the arena for 30 years to policy that is …

In the past twenty years the study of urban politics has shifted from a predominant concern
with political culture and ethos to a preoccupation with political economy, particularly that of …

Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and
strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place …

Placed within a larger politico-economic order, city governments are captives of many slowly
changing forces that shape and limit community choices. This article seeks to conceptualize …

During the past two decades, issues of local economic growth have come to dominate urban
politics and planning in American cities, and local governments have adopted increasingly …

Even if a newly integrated global economy has produced similar restructuring challenges
across nations and the localities within them, there can still be variations across places in …

This article applies major propositions about local growth politics to two types of cities and to
an extended time frame normally absent in previous studies. Houston typifies the" new," or …

The two decades since the publication of Harvey Molotch's seminal paper," The City as a
Growth Machine"(Molotch 1976), have witnessed dramatic changes in the economic, social …

During the last 15 years, a powerful concept in the analysis of local politics has been the"
growth machine": the potent coalition of government officials and local business elites united …