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Why did voters approve the 1998 Denver Broncos Stadium tax initiative? Three competing theories.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Why did voters approve the 1998 Denver Broncos Stadium tax initiative? Three competing theories./
作者:	Jones, Sean.
面頁冊數:	232 p.
附註:	Adviser: Peter deLeon.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
標題:	Political Science, Public Administration. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3267890
ISBN:	9780549065425

Why did voters approve the 1998 Denver Broncos Stadium tax initiative? Three competing theories.
Jones, Sean.

Why did voters approve the 1998 Denver Broncos Stadium tax initiative? Three competing theories. - 232 p.

Adviser: Peter deLeon.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Denver, 2007.

The primary goal of this thesis was to identify the strongest reasons why Denver-area voters approved the 1998 stadium referendum for the National Football League Broncos. Prevailing literature indicated that economic rationales consistently fail to stand as sound reasons to invest public funds for a private enterprise like a professional sports venue. An alternative to the economic rationales in the literature included a desire for voters to maintain their city's image as "major league" by building a stadium to prevent the team from relocating. So, this thesis examined whether voters indicated that economics or city pride influenced their vote on the stadium referendum. Another vein of this research that was derived from the literature involved testing for the comparative effectiveness of the parties organized for and against the stadium measure, an application of urban regime theory. Methods employed in the research were threefold: (1) a quantitative and qualitative text analysis of direct quotations in newspaper articles pertaining to the stadium referendum; (2) interviews with key informants who had participated in the original referendum discourse and (3) a statistical analysis of public opinion polls conducted during the months leading to the final vote. Findings from this thesis indicate that in Denver's case in 1998: (1) voters considered economic costs to be minimal to the individual; (2) voters did not take economic payoffs into consideration; (3) a desire to maintain Denver's city image as "major league" was the most compelling reason voters gave for supporting the stadium tax and (4) stadium proponents were much more effectively organized than stadium opponents. One part of urban regime theory that specifically applies to stadium-building with public funds is the idea of the "solution set" in which governments replicate policy solutions in lieu of meaningful new dialogue about the best ways to finance a new sports venue. In Denver's case, policymakers clearly operated via a solution set when the new football stadium district followed the exact boundaries and taxing structure of the previous Coors Field baseball district despite indications that modifications to the policy could have proven beneficial.

ISBN: 9780549065425Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017438
Political Science, Public Administration.

Why did voters approve the 1998 Denver Broncos Stadium tax initiative? Three competing theories.
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