French urban planning and politics has moved away from traditional spatial and social policy goals toward a new politics of local economic development. The roots of this transformation are found in such factors as local economic distress, European unification, enhanced global and intercity competition, political decentralization, and a change in Socialist party ideology away from its previous anticapitalist stance to a pragmatic, probusiness point of view. Growth coalitions in France and the United States are compared in an effort to identify the roots and structures of growth regimes.
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