Based on a survey of Michigan residents, this study explores public support for devolution of public services to state and local governments. The survey allowed respondents to choose more than one level of government to provide services. On one hand, a large majority endorsed the devolution of...

The loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States has been widely noted in the popular press as well as in public policy debate. We examine several of the most prominently made assertions about manufacturing decline and its consequences for deindustrializing metropolitan areas and find not all...

Rubin sounded an alarm indicating that economic development practitioners were less than strategic in their economic development incentive adoption when he declared that developers “shoot anything that flies, claim anything that falls.†This article builds on the work of those who have...