The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States

Abstract

Preface State Industrial Recruitment and Japanese Automobile Investment Industrial Policies in the American States: Historical and Comparative Perspectives State Incentive Packages and the Industrial Location Decision Constitutional Dimensions of State Industrial Recruitment Mid-American State Perspectives Flat Rock, Michigan, Trades a Ford for a Mazda: State Policy and the Evaluation of Plant Location Incentives Economic Development and Diamond-Star Motors: Intergovernmental Competition and Cooperation Japanese Automobile Investment in West Central Ohio: Economic Development and Labor-Management Issues Local Images of Japanese Automobile Investment in Indiana and Kentucky Problems of Coalition Building in Japanese Auto Alley: Public Opposition to the Georgetown/Toyota Plant Japanese Investment in Tennessee: The Economic Effects of Nissan's Location in Smyrna Search for an American Industrial Policy The National Level Roots of the Failure of State Industrial Policy Select Bibliography Index