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THE AMERICAN STATES AND THE SHIFTING LOCUS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC INTERVENTION
Author(s) -
Brace Paul,
Mucciaroni Gary
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1990.tb00072.x
Subject(s) - legislature , ideology , economic interventionism , intervention (counseling) , state (computer science) , economics , politics , competition (biology) , government (linguistics) , political economy , political science , economic policy , market economy , psychology , psychiatry , biology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , law
While there has been a turn away from positive government intervention in the economy at the national level, we have witnessed an embrace of this strategy in may of the American states. What impact, if any, have these efforts by state governments had on their economies? The paper focuses on variations in party control, competition, and ideology, the institutional capacities of governors and legislatures, and policy measures, while controlling for a variety of alternative influences on state economies. For the period from 1968–1979 states were dominated by the national economy and other forces over which they had little or no control, and thus had little or no effect on their economies. However, for the 1980–1985 period, party, political capacity, and policy exerted a statistically significant influence on state economic performance.