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Entrepreneurial governance in the neoliberal era : local government and the automotive industry / Oliver Cowart.

"Against the background of a growing tendency among state and local governments in the United States to vie against one another, spending public funds and foregoing corporate tax revenues in order to attract private investment, this book offers an analysis of local economic development and busi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Cowart, Oliver, 1984- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Series:Routledge studies in urban sociology.
Subjects:
Automobile industry and trade > United States.
Industrial policy > United States.
Industrial promotion > United States.
Regional economics > United States.
Local government > United States.
Community development, Urban > United States.
Automobile industry and trade.
Community development, Urban.
Industrial policy.
Industrial promotion.
Local government.
Regional economics.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Context, Cases
  • Theorizing Local Development Strategies
  • Patterns in the Industry
  • Patterns in Location
  • The Industrial Recruitment of Automotive Assembly Plants in the South
  • The Business of Partnerships
  • The Political and Economic in Partnership
  • Axiomatic? A Weird, Blurred Line.

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