Managing Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Informal Practices and Collaborative Economic Development on the US-Mexico Border

《Managing Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Informal Practices and Collaborative Economic Development on the US-Mexico Border》

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关键字: economic development policy; regional economic development; globalization; institutional roles; UNITED-STATES; INCOME INEQUALITY; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; INTERACTION ORDER; POLICY; GOVERNANCE; NETWORKS; COMMUNITY; CITIES; GROWTH

作者单位: [Pipkin, Seth] Univ Calif Irvine, Sch Social Ecol, Urban Planning & Publ Policy, Irvine, CA USA. Pipkin, S (reprint author), Univ Calif Irvine, Sch Social Ecol, Social Ecol 1 218E, Irvine, CA 92697 USA. E-Mail: spipkin@uci.edu

摘要: How can local actors manage the regional-level impacts of trade liberalization? Most scholarship focuses on how given endowments, such as geographic location and existing industries, affect the local economic impacts of these contentious policies. This study considers local actors' room for maneuver by focusing on a controlled case comparison of two city pairs along the Texas-Mexico border. These city pairs possessed very similar resource endowments and formal institutions prior to the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but diverged dramatically afterward in their economic growth patterns. A detailed comparison of policy implementation reveals that distinct local informal institutions were a key source of their economic divergence. The identification of the role of these "repertoires" of unwritten local habits and practices underscores the potential impact of collaborative efforts on long-term economic outcomes while adding to our understanding of the basis on which such collaborations are built.