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Smith, Russell L. – 1985
Rural economic development presents a paradox of growth in population and jobs without corresponding improvement in local economic well-being. Four forces may impede nonmetropolitan development efforts. Growth of multiestablishment corporations makes traditional regional economic development models unrealistic. Rural industrialization is socially,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Benefits, Community Development, Community Involvement
Eberts, Paul; Khawaja, Marwan – 1987
Conceptualizing high local fiscal stress as a variable which includes low fiscal capacity, high local tax effort and high local need requires building a typology reflecting this conceptualization. This study builds such a typology for 166 counties in the northeastern United States and examines the effects of variables taken from a series of…
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Fiscal Capacity, Government Role, Human Services
Welton, John; Evans, Jennifer – 1986
Using the 1981 Education Act of England and Wales as a case study, this paper develops a conceptual framework of education legislation as a significant reference point in the process of negotiation and bargaining that initiates legislation and continues throughout the period of policy implementation. A model of the policy process and the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Educational Theories