ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that Reese and Rosenfeld civic culture framework in a study of Louisville, Kentucky. It examines the civic culture in Louisville and the community power structure, community value system and public decision-making system as described by knowledgeable persons. Consistent with Stone's characterization, a corporate regime blends political and business actors in a long-term, patterned relationship in order to promote economic development. The interviews allowed us to delineate the broad features of Louisville's civic culture in general and in two specific policy arenas economic development and education. Louisville's civic culture can be characterized as a corporate-centered regime, particularly on the all important issue of economic development. Greater Louisville Inc. (GLI) receives significant funding from the new Metro government. It has major force behind local government reorganization and responsible for charting the community's economic development agenda. Regimes in general and corporate regimes in particular are about the concordance of power and goals in order to leverage public and private capital.
