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American State and Local Politics

Directions for the 21st Century
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This text brings together a team of scholars from state and local government and politics to provide an array of viewpoints on the impact in the US of major institutional changes in the states and localities since the 1970s. The contributors discuss the status of state and local government practices and point out the challenges facing officials as they enter the next millennium. The book is aimed at upper-level undergraduates.
States and localities transformed, Ronald E. Weber and Paul Brace; federalism and subnational governance, Robert M. Stein; governors - their heritage and future, Nelson C. Dometrius; the institutional legislature and the rise of the anti-politics era, Paul Brace and Daniel S. Ward; statehouse bureaucracy - institutional, consistency in a changing environment, Charles Barrilleaux; state judicial politics - rules, structures, and the political game, Melinda Gann Hall; the embattled mayors and local executives, James H, Svara; the resurgent city councils, Susan MacManus. (Part contents)
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