IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/urbstu/v39y2002i8p1329-1346.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Power and Conflict in Pro-growth Regimes: Tensions in Economic Development in Jersey City and Detroit

Author

Listed:
  • Paul Lawless

    (Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield, SI 1WB, UK, P.L.Lawless@shuac.uk)

Abstract

Jersey City and Detroit provide contrasting experience of the policy and politics in two US cities. Both can be seen as idealised 'pro-growth' regimes. Jersey City has benefited from the relocation of commercial and residential development out of Manhattan. The city has actively pursued new investment and has instigated various policies designed to spread the benefits of development across different sectoral and spatial communities. Detroit has endured enormous economic collapse, although there are limited signs of enhanced physical development. Policy-making and linkage programmes remain limited and contested. Overall reflections on policy-making in these cities point to the apparent importance of the mayor, a complex institutional environment, weak bureaucracies and interagency and intra-agency conflict. Regime formation remains relatively weak, especially in Detroit. In both areas, coalition-building can be overstressed to the detriment of the realities of, and opportunities created by, economic change in the wider economy.

Suggested Citation

  • Paul Lawless, 2002. "Power and Conflict in Pro-growth Regimes: Tensions in Economic Development in Jersey City and Detroit," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 39(8), pages 1329-1346, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:39:y:2002:i:8:p:1329-1346
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980220142664
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/00420980220142664
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00420980220142664?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Timothy Bates & David Howell, 1998. "The Declining Status of Minorities in the New York City Construction Industry," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 12(1), pages 88-100, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Alicia Robb & Robert Fairlie, 2006. "Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States," Working Papers 06-32, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    2. Magnus Lofstrom & Timothy Bates, 2013. "African Americans’ pursuit of self-employment," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 40(1), pages 73-86, January.
    3. Manuel Carvajal, 2006. "Economic grounds for affirmative action: The evidence on architects and engineers in South Florida," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(4), pages 515-538.
    4. Robert W. Fairlie & Alicia M. Robb, 2007. "Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 25(2), pages 289-323.
    5. Timothy Bates, 2006. "Discrimination in the Chicago-area construction industry handicaps minority-owned firms," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 33(4), pages 7-26, March.
    6. Timothy Bates & Lisa Servon, 1998. "Microenterprise As An Exit Route From Poverty:* Recommendations For Programs And Policy Makers," Working Papers 98-17, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    7. Günseli Berik & Cihan Bilginsoy, 2006. "Still a wedge in the door: women training for the construction trades in the USA," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 27(4), pages 321-341, June.
    8. Robert W. Fairlie & Alicia M. Robb, 2008. "Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 026206281x, December.
    9. Vivian Price, 2002. "Race, Affirmative Action, and Women's Employment in US Highway Construction," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 87-113.
    10. Robert Fairlie & Justin Marion, 2012. "Affirmative action programs and business ownership among minorities and women," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 39(2), pages 319-339, September.
    11. Josiane Isingizwe & Ricardo Eiris & Masoud Gheisari, 2023. "Racial Disparities in the Construction Domain: A Systematic Literature Review of the U.S. Educational and Workforce Domain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-18, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:39:y:2002:i:8:p:1329-1346. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudiesjournal .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.