Institutionalist Approaches to Organization and Process in Local Economic Development
When it comes to citizen involvement in local economic development activities, and motivating them to become involved, established institutions could be more hindrance than help often. Several aspects have been noted over the years.
- Municipal arrangements that are large and unified tend to dissuade participation owing to difficulty in understanding the system.
- Reforms resulting in fairly selected administration at the civic level remove non-professionals from much of the action.
- City government tends to become more responsive to economic problems when political involvement is structured into the system at the policy level.
- Government sub-agencies and boards often tend to co-opt citizen participation.
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