SUBURBAN GROWTH POLITICS IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY - GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND POLITICAL REGIMES

This paper uses a regime perspective to analyze growth policy in subur ban Hillsborough County from the mid-1950s through 1990. It suggests t hat a caretaker regime that was hospitable to rapid, unplanned growth was dominant throughout most of this period and that a corporate regim e prevailed in the later 1980s. The corporate governing coalition suff ered a setback in the 1990 elections. A regime paradigm is more fruitf ul in examining growth management policy than merely looking at the pr esence or absence of discrete ''growth control'' initiatives.