Policies on the move: The transatlantic travels of Tax Increment Financing

Baker, Tom, Cook, Ian, McCann, Eugene, Temenos, Cristina and Ward, Kevin (2016) Policies on the move: The transatlantic travels of Tax Increment Financing. Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers, 106 (2). pp. 459-469. ISSN 0004-5608

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1113111

Abstract

Growing influence of the “new mobilities paradigm” among human geographers has combined with a long and rich disciplinary tradition of studying the movement of things and people. Yet how policy ideas and knowledge are mobilized remains a notably under-developed area of inquiry. In this paper, we discuss the mobilization of policy ideas and policy models as a particularly powerful type of mobile knowledge. The paper examines the burgeoning academic work on policy mobilities and points towards a growing policy mobilities approach in the literature, noting the multidisciplinary conversations behind the approach as well as the key commitments of many of its advocates. This approach is illustrated using the travels of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) with the role of learning and market-making within efforts to spread TIF to more cities highlighted. In conclusion, we discuss some of the political and practical limits that often confront efforts to mobilize policy ideas.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers on 12th January 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00045608.2015.1113111.
Uncontrolled Keywords: policy mobilities, tax increment financing, urban redevelopment
Subjects: L700 Human and Social Geography
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User: Ian Cook
Date Deposited: 16 Jun 2015 09:51
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2023 16:46
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/22919

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