Politics of Industrial Recruitment

ERNEST J. YANARELLA is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. He is currently completing a book on contemporary science fiction and the ecological imagination.WILLIAM C. GREEN is Associate Professor of Government at Morehead State University and Research Associate with the Institute for Mining and Minerals Research at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of several books, and coauthor, with Ernest J. Yanarella, of The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• Preface State Industrial Recruitment and Japanese Automobile Investment Industrial Policies in the American States: Historical and Comparative Perspectives State Incentive Packages and the Industrial Location Decision Constitutional Dimensions of State Industrial Recruitment Mid-American State Perspectives Flat Rock, Michigan, Trades a Ford for a Mazda: State Policy and the Evaluation of Plant Location Incentives Economic Development and Diamond-Star Motors: Intergovernmental Competition and Cooperation Japanese Automobile Investment in West Central Ohio: Economic Development and Labor-Management Issues Local Images of Japanese Automobile Investment in Indiana and Kentucky Problems of Coalition Building in Japanese Auto Alley: Public Opposition to the Georgetown/Toyota Plant Japanese Investment in Tennessee: The Economic Effects of Nissan's Location in Smyrna Search for an American Industrial Policy The National Level Roots of the Failure of State Industrial Policy Select Bibliography Index