Building Development Capacity in Nonmetropolitan Communities

How can small, nonmetropolitan communities develop the capacity to improve their economies and their overall quality of life? Michael McGuire, Barry Rubin, Robert Agranoff, and Craig Richards examine the role of community-wide strategic planning as a capacity building tool. Using a matched-pair eval...

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Published in:Public administration review 1994-09, Vol.54 (5), p.426-433
Main Authors: McGuire, Michael, Rubin, Barry, Agranoff, Robert, Richards, Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Area planning & development
Business development
Capacity
Capacity Building
Change
Citizen participation
Communities
Community
Community capacity building
Community development
Community life
Community participation
Community power
Community Relations
Community structure
Economic development
Government (Administrative Body)
Infrastructure
Leadership Role
Meetings
Methods
Money Management
Performance evaluation
Political leadership
Political participation
Politics
Public administration
Research Design
Retirement communities
Rural development
Skills
Social Change
Social research
Strategic planning
Strategic planning (Business)
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Summary:How can small, nonmetropolitan communities develop the capacity to improve their economies and their overall quality of life? Michael McGuire, Barry Rubin, Robert Agranoff, and Craig Richards examine the role of community-wide strategic planning as a capacity building tool. Using a matched-pair evaluation design, the authors find that small communities that have engaged in a strategic planning process possess higher levels of development capacity than a group of similar communities that have had no previous experience with strategic planning. Such planning can lead to positive political changes in the community and result in a consensus about the nature of the desired development.
ISSN:0033-3352
1540-6210
DOI:10.2307/976427