Robert Hines Wilson, Robert H. Wilson

States and the Economy

Policymaking and Decentralization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wilson examines how economic and political decentralization is affecting the development policymaking environment at the state level. The book first empirically examines the changing economic geography of the country and the specific effects on the economic structure of states. Following this, three case studies are presented. These constitute an investigation of the intergovernmental context of public policymaking and the historical role of state government in development. Economic development and technology policy generally involve targeted assistance to particular elements of the economy. Telecommunications policy represents a regulatory role for states in the most significant infrastructure of the information age. Education and training, long principal responsibilities of state government, represent a form of social infrastructure and are perhaps the most vital for ensuring the long-term viability of a states's economy. Each of these policy areas present different state development roles, and the ability of a state to adapt its policies appropriately will determine--according to this author--its future prosperity. This text will be of interest to scholars, students, and policymakers in regional planning, state and local government, public administration, and public policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780275945060
• ISBN-10: 0275945065
• Artikelnr.: 21190642

Autorenporträt

ROBERT H. WILSON is professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas. He is the coeditor of Telecommunications and Rural Development (Praeger, 1991) and The New Urban Infrastructure (Praeger, 1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Structural Economic Change and the States Policymaking and the States The
State Role in Economic Development Development and Technology Policy The
State as Regulator of Infrastructure: Telecommunications Policy The State
as Social Infrastructure Provider: Education and Training State
Policymaking and Economic Change Appendices: The Theil Index; The Census
Regions; Welfare Spending per $100 of Personal Income by State, 1987