GOVERNING WITHOUT A (NATIONAL) RUDDER:

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Prepared for:

The 6th Annual Innovation Systems Research Network Conference

Vancouver

May 15, 2004

Tijs Creutzberg

Ph.D. Candidate,Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

A LOOK AT A MULTI-LEVEL AND MULTI-ACTORED MODEL OF CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN NORTH AMERICA

CONCEPTS

Non-market governance:

definition: the means of coordination through which decisions are made in the allocation of economic resources, other than by the price mechanism of markets

Governance as framework of analysis

CONTEXT

Diffusion of authority from national level
Local institutions increasingly important in economic governance
Opening of space for non-market economic governance at the local level

AUSTIN MSA IN NUMBERS, 2003

AUSTIN’S TRANSFORMATION

EVIDENCE OF COMPREHENSIVE GOVERNANCE

Locally coordinated economic adaptation

economic: firm recruitment, expansion, and creation; R&D
non-economic: social integration, urban infrastructure, environment workforce development

Informal coordination process

organized across different levels of government
involvement of various associations, private sector actors
task specific, self-scaling

VARIABLES UNDER STUDY

CG = f (ACTORS {Associative (local(civic entrepreneurs, leaders, sector, regional, civic society, business, Higher education), Regional(sector), federal(sector)), Government (local, regional, federal)}

FORMAL INSTITUTIONS {Local (policies), Regional (Higher education, policies, programs, Federal (macroeconomic, Tax policies, programs} +
INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS {civic identity, social capital}
KNOWLEDGE SECTOR {character, size, % subsidiary firms, local dominance }
REGIONALISM {size, jurisdictions}
FEDERALISM + ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION)