Why Do Localities Provide Economic Development Incentives? Geographic Competition, Political Constituencies, and Government Capacity

Growth and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-391

  Betz, Michael R ^a   Partridge, Mark D ^a   Kraybill, David S ^a   Lobao, Linda ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC POLICY; INCENTIVE; LOCAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865337029     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2012.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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