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January 2006
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We gauge the relative impact of economics, demographics, and politics on the decisions of 79 rural North Carolina counties whether to site a prison in the period 1970–2000. The results of this model demonstrate that, contrary to the expectation that counties site prisons in response to economic distress, the demographic characteristics of each county affect the relative likelihood of a prison siting more than its economics does. The influential demographic predictors are those inextricably bound up with development options—the education levels of its citizens—and those that limit its ability to pursue controversial projects—its not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) constituencies—rather than those that measure its racial diversity. Therefore, prison siting is neither a simple story of economic determinism nor one of environmental racism. We use a proportional hazards regression to model this innovation adoption in response to the challenge to select methods that take the potential time dependence of adoptions into account. A duration model is also particularly suitable for cases such as this one for which the innovation adoption is better understood as a process than as an event.
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... Too often, cluster definitions are used as ways for consultants to derive marketable advantages over competitors (Feser, Renski, & Koo, 2009) and to guarantee future 212 Economic Development Quarterly 25 (3) work when regions desire to understand the growth of their clusters. Concerns about overlooking local variations or uniqueness in clusters using national benchmarks can be addressed by adopting IMPLAN data using localized industry purchasing requirements to supplement the national accounts data, as do Goldstein, Feser, Freyer, Gordon, and Weinberg (2008), or to use discrete wavelet transformations capturing the local behavior of data sets, as do Almasri and Shakur (2008). ...
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... The presence of unwanted prisons may squeeze out local businesses and other legitimate alternatives (Hooks et al, 2004;Huling, 1999;Whitfield, 2008). When prison towns compete to attract prisons, they are forced to bear the infrastructure costs for water, sewer, and others, which are needed to operate prisons (Hooks et al., 2010;Hoyman & Weinberg, 2006). All things considered, prison hosting could not effectively increase the local tax revenues for governments and bring significant economic benefits to host communities. ...
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January 2006