Abstract

The city of Las Vegas, Nevada was one of the hardest hit communities in the United States during the 2008 Great Recession. As the nation emerged from the economic downturn, city and state officials worked together to create a framework through which the region could become more proactive in its future through economic diversification. That effort resulted in the creation of an urban regime, a working committee of private and public stakeholders who collaborated to offer recommendations to the governor. One such recommendation was a $750 million subsidy to build a large-scale football stadium, one of the largest sport facility public subsidy to date. This qualitative inquiry examined regime development and the decision-making process at the local and state level that led to approval of the stadium subsidy. Through a historical research approach, we examined how the Las Vegas stadium regime coalesced, and how economic conditions, politics, and ideology may have influenced the regime’s decision-making.

摘要

内华达州拉斯维加斯市是 2008 年大衰退期间美国受灾最严重的社区之一。随着国家从经济衰退中走出来，市政府和州政府官员共同努力创建了一个框架，通过该框架，该地区可以在未来通过经济多元化变得更加积极主动。这一努力导致建立了一个城市制度，一个由私人和公共利益相关者组成的工作委员会，他们合作向州长提供建议。其中一项建议是拨款 7.5 亿美元建造一个大型足球场，这是迄今为止最大的体育设施公共补贴之一。这项定性调查考察了导致体育场补贴获得批准的地方和州一级的制度发展和决策过程。通过历史研究的方法，