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Can Community Design Build Trust? A Comparative Study Of Design Factors In Boise, Idaho Neighborhoods, Susan G. Mason
Can Community Design Build Trust? A Comparative Study Of Design Factors In Boise, Idaho Neighborhoods, Susan G. Mason
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Finding ways to increase trust may be one mechanism to overcome the alleged negative consequences of urban sprawl for neighborhoods. This study explores two relationships with community design and trust. First, is one benefit of some of the underlying concepts of New Urbanism design that they build trust? Second, can these design concepts overcome one undesirable feature of cities: the deleterious effect of income inequality on trust? This study uses survey data collected from 34 city of Boise neighborhoods and 2000 US census data aggregated to the neighborhood level to examine the effects of street design, sidewalks and open space …
Exploring The Links Between Party And Appointment: Canadian Federal Judicial Appointments From 1989 To 2003, Lori Hausegger, Troy Riddell, Matthew Hennigar, Emmanuelle Richez
Exploring The Links Between Party And Appointment: Canadian Federal Judicial Appointments From 1989 To 2003, Lori Hausegger, Troy Riddell, Matthew Hennigar, Emmanuelle Richez
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Studies of federal judicial appointments made before 1988 discovered significant partisan ties between judicial appointees and the governments appointing them. In 1988, in response to criticism of these “patronage appointments,” the Mulroney government introduced screening committees to the process. This article explores the impact of these committees. Using information gained from surveys of legal elites, we trace the minor and major political connections of federal judicial appointees from 1989 to 2003 in order to determine whether patronage has continued despite the reform to the process. We discover that political connections continued to play an important role in who was selected …
Tax Increment Financing In Missouri: An Analysis Of Determinants, Competitive Dynamics, Equity, And Path Dependency, Susan Mason, Kenneth P. Thomas
Tax Increment Financing In Missouri: An Analysis Of Determinants, Competitive Dynamics, Equity, And Path Dependency, Susan Mason, Kenneth P. Thomas
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Tax increment financing (TIF) has been a popular and controversial economic development tool for several decades. This research considers the determinants of competitive dynamics, equity, and path dependency on TIF use. We use logistic and ordinary least squares regressions on the approval, number, and value of TIFs in Missouri to flesh out the way the determinants contribute to TIF approval, value, and frequency of use. This study finds that there are competitive dynamics that affect TIF use: being adjacent to another city that uses TIFs increases the likelihood that a city will approve a TIF. The study finds evidence that …