Privatization, Business Attraction, and Social Services across the United States

摘要: Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-oriented policies that broadly concern scientists. These conventionally assumed to be widely implemented across the United States, a world model of neoliberal development. This study takes new look at these policies, providing first view how they unfold nation geographic scale drills down local state. We document extent which localities privatized their public services, used attraction, delivery in last decade. Extending national-level theories welfare state, we focus on two sets factors explain where most likely utilized. The first, derived from class-politics approach, emphasizes class interests such as unions political-ideological context, anticipates utilized Republican leaning, pro-business, distressed contexts. second, political-institutional state capacity path dependency determinants. analyses based over 1,700 localities, majority county governments, using unique policy data. Class-politics variables have modest relationship show sector influence matter. findings strongly support importance dependency. Overall our challenges assumptions acquiescence is widespread. Rather, find evidence resilience among communities States.