The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development

Laura A. Reese is professor of political science and director of the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Her research on economic development, public finance, civic culture and workplace harassment has been published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Personnel Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and many other journals. She has written 10 books of which three, including Comparative Civic Culture, were published in 2012. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Wayne State University in 1985.

Local Civic Culture The Missing Determinant? Civic Culture and Theories of Local Governance A Blended Methodological Approach Quantitative Measures of Local Civic Culture Modeling Local Economic Development Policy Categories of Local Civic Culture The `Strong Mayor' Cases Rumulus and Coshocton The Inclusive Cases Oakville and Fairborn The Active-Elite Cases Cadillac, Kettering, Gloucester The Passive-Elite Cases Cornwall and Allen Park Comparing Categories of Civic Culture Linking the Methodologies The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development Considering Past and Future Research