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Politics and Economic Development: Why Governments Adopt Different Strategies to Induce Economic Growth
Author(s) -
Sail Martin
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02086.x
Subject(s) - ideology , competition (biology) , politics , state (computer science) , economics , function (biology) , public economics , economic system , political science , ecology , algorithm , evolutionary biology , computer science , law , biology
This article assesses the forces that drive governments to engage in economic development activity and 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 and theories of policy adoption in a pooled times series analysis using indicators of interstate competition, fiscal stress, and state ideology collected between 1983 and 1994. I find that economic development strategy choices are largely a function of interjurisdictional competition. The implications of my findings are discussed.