Political Science 3364F/G Chapter Notes -Bourgeoisie, Corruption, Big Business
6 Dec 2012
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Three ways to build: the development process in the us molotch and vicari. National government, linked to conglomerate firms, plays a significant role in japanese development. In italy, the national political party system (as opposed to government) is prominent in setting the conditions of local development. For the us, we take the growth machine" model as descriptive of how the urban system operates. For italy our primary resource is the coauthors analysis of mass transit in milan. Caution must be exercised given the obvious imbalance between the large evidentiary base from us studies and the more limited materials on growth machine dynamics from. The us is unusual in the degree to which regulation of property development is weak and decentralized. Us is still extreme in the freedom allowed entrepreneurs to manipulate the environment for profit. Weak regulation combined with local autonomy makes each property owner a potential speculator whose investment return depends on decisions made by local government.
