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Policy Instrument Choices for Growth Management and Land Use Regulation
Author(s) -
Feiock Richard C.,
Tavares António F.,
Lubell Mark
Publication year - 2008
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.1541-0072.2008.00277.x
Subject(s) - growth management , zoning , argument (complex analysis) , incentive , politics , public economics , local government , government (linguistics) , business , land use , economics , public policy , service (business) , public administration , political science , economic growth , market economy , law , marketing , biochemistry , chemistry , civil engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering
What factors account for local government land use practices and their choices among specific growth management policy instruments? We apply the political market framework to examine how land use policy choices in Florida are shaped by institutional features of county governments and the demands of organizations and interests in a community. Local policy decisions reflect a balance of the conflicting interests and responses to economic and political pressures. The results demonstrate that county government structure and election rules play critical roles in the adoption of urban service boundaries, incentive zoning, and transfer of development rights programs. We report evidence consistent with the argument that these “second‐generation” growth management policies are motivated by exclusionary goals.